s, caused More to conclude that the whole system of private ownership was rotten and must be abolished. He saw a causal connection between the evils of the world and the economic system. Private property, he maintained, establishes pride and greed, and destroys selflessness and Christian brotherhood. Therefore, if private property were eliminated, all the violence, injustice, and oppression which stem from such prideful acquisitiveness would also be eliminated. He states, "The one and only path to public safety is the equality of property (36).
This is a clearly communistic proposition. More further agrees with Marxist ideology insofar as he considers the state the appropriate instrument for the inculcation of socialist values and the defense
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