Against communism

'Kandinsky also harboured a profound mistrust of every form of Communism...'
- Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus, 1919-1933, 2002.

Wassilly Kandinsky, Composizione Paesaggio, 1915.

'The question of property is the question about the proper property, which belongs to the proper "person" : that is, of the proper "wealth" (or "glory" - or, this is the same in a way, the proper "sense"). Such a proper property may only be common. As private, it makes no sense (sense for a single one is no sense at all) ; as collective it makes the same effect for the collective is a single - mechanical - unity, not the plurality of the common.

Common is the adequate word for the properness of being, if being means ontologically being “in common”.'

Jean-Luc Nancy, text sent by the author to the 'Idea of Communism' conference at Birkbeck University, 2009.