Dan Crenshaw blasts Teen Vogue op-ed advocating end to private property rights

Fox News ^ | 7 August 2020

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, blasted Teen Vogue on Thursday over a July column in which the writer advocates for the eventual end of private property rights. Columnist Kandist Mallett, who has recently focused on issues related to racial injustice protests, centered her argument around those struggling financially during the coronavirus pandemic -- such as those dealing with rent and eviction issues.

“It’s been four months since the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic first highlighted the failures of capitalism and the incompetence of the United States government,” Mallett wrote in the piece, which was titled "An Eviction Crisis Is Coming — We Need to Treat Housing as a Right."

She said it was time to look at the role private housing plays in the “economic violence” against communities – especially those of color – who are currently facing eviction due to the pandemic.

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Mallett added that the anti-eviction movement should be linked to larger land struggles in the country’s history, adding that a moratorium on evictions only delays the real issues of the housing crisis.

“We should cancel rent outright as this pandemic rages,” she wrote, "and we should work toward a world where landlords no longer hold this sort of power over people’s lives.”

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“While we’re working to abolish the police, we must also work to dismantle what the police were put here to protect: property. What is more evident of the legacy of settler colonialism and its violence than the idea of the ownership of land?” she wrote.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

This is outright, raw Marxism. We already know how that turns out. The Democrats and the media supporting all of this are obviously the Marxist drive behind all of this. They ARE traitors! Have these yuts not studied history at all??? They are going to become the "Useful Idiots" and will be killed. If they help overthrow the government, the communist-style one that replaces it will see THEM as a threat of doing the same to them and they WILL be eliminated. I do not know why they can't see it coming.

[adorno]

There are countries where the government controls all material things, and they also control the people.

Anyone that wishes to live under that kind of rule, is welcome to move to those countries. Why ruin a country where most everybody wants to own their ‘things’ and control their own personal lives? People left Europe and other places to come to America, simply because it’s government by the people, for the people, and of the people. What Teen Vogue advocates is completely opposite of what America means.

Soon after moving to a country that runs everything and controls everything, the people who believe like the Teen Vogue writers, would be looking to move right back to the U.S., just like virtually the whole world wants to move to the U.s.

[maddog55]

It's not just for Guns anymore !!

[SMARTY]

“This is outright, raw Marxism.” Right and also unalloyed stupidity.

We used to have drinks with my friend’s co worker who was a city administrator. He was a minority and screaming Liberal, but tolerable.

One night he was complaining about something stolen from his office. I had to laugh, I said: “Well, if you understand property, then I guess there’s hope for you.”

He didn’t want to laugh, but he had to.

[unread]

"This is outright, raw Marxism."

I not at all surprised... When the cops recently arrested 20 antifa hoods 13 of them were teachers from across the nation..
I don't think that was just a fluke.. I believe that is now the norm.. They have really whacked-up our kids and need to answer for it... :(

[freedumb2003]

To shut up the fools at TEEN Vogue just take their cell phones and tablets.

No property rights, right?

[real saxophonist]

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

-Elvis Costello

[9YearLurker]

Somehow I don’t expect Vogue or its readers to advocate communal clothes closets. Or anti-fashion, government issued Mao suits.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I wonder how the readers of Teen Vogue would feel if some other teen girl could just walk into their room and help themselves to their makeup and wardrobe?

[Deplorable American1776]

Teen Vogue: The teen girls’ guide to Marxism.

[dljordan]

“Have these yuts not studied history at all???”

Yes, in college. Woke history.

[Old Sarge]

we should work toward a world where landlords no longer hold this sort of power over people’s lives

Such as the Alcalde of Los Angeles, who is shutting off all utilities for his political opponents...

[subterfuge]

I wouldn’t bet on it.

[Sans-Culotte]

When the cops recently arrested 20 antifa hoods 13 of them were teachers from across the nation..

Reminds me of the play and movie "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in which a foolish schoolteacher tries to inspire her students to join the brave freedom fighters in Spain led by Franco.

[SkyPilot]

Leftist Marxism:

- You have a "right" to free healthcare, housing, cash, food, tuition, childcare, insurance, marijuana, and to murder your unborn (and even born) children.

- But you don't have a "right" to free speech, to defend your loved ones and property, to own a business free of government tyranny, or to worship God.

[Jolla]

So they loaded up their truck and moved to Beverly, Beverly Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars.

[VTenigma]

I think we should divest property from people advocating for this first, you know, as a test case.

[mo]

the government has so indebted itself it requires rental payments from all to meet its obligations

the goal of the American Bolsheviks.

[wny]

my brother is a phy-asst at a NYC hospital, drank all the Obamacare Kool-Aide, healthcare should be free for everyone!

I asked him how healthcare could be free if he gets paid?

deer-in-the-headlights look followed...

[eyeamok]

Nevertheless in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally
applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public
purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national
bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of
the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State: the
bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally
in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies,
especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries: gradual abolition
of all the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of
the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s
factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial
production, &c., &c.
When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and
all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole
nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so
called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the
proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of
circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes
itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of
production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the
conditions for the existence of class antagonisms, and of classes generally, and will
thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we
shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for
the free development of all.