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According to Marx, what is social property?
A. Intellectual property during the industrial age
B. The means of production
C. The property of the small independent farmer or storekeeper
D. Can be anything—your house, my birdhouse.
Answer.) B. The means of production
The predominance of social ownership of the means of production means that socialist production is freed from the contradiction, inherent in capitalism, between the social character of production and the private capitalist form of appropriating its fruits.