In what way is everybody’s individual rights violated under communism?

Without access to your property—the fruits of your labors—your individual rights are violated in the most fundamental way. Ironically and horribly, this means that under communism everybody’s individual rights—peasants, workers, the middle and upper class, and members of any other “oppressed” or “oppressing” group—are sacrificed for the benefit of the collective in the name of the “public good.”

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