i basically have zero knowledge on the private property issue... i did a little google search and i think i get some of it but what i don't get is how exactly would things change if private property were abolished, what would a world without private property look like? and how would it affect the average person i guess?

I’m not an expert, but as I understand it, getting rid of private property is necessary to abolish capitalism. Private property is a big reason why you have land lords, over-priced rent, homeless people, gentrification, colonialism. Many Indigenous people, for example, did not have a concept of private property—it was a concept imposed on them by the West as a way to take and exploit their land (not to say that this idea is unique to the West, or even originates from it: other societies have used it as an oppressive force, too—and it predates capitalism—but i feel like the West primarily used it as a tool of colonialism). It’s an oppressive construction that also is core to the Western/capitalist notion of individualism/”freedom.”* If you abolish capitalism and establish a communist/socialist society, no individual would own land/resources. Everything would be owned by the people. I think this is also key to ending environmental degradation as well, as corporations take hold of land and destroy habitats because they “own” the land and can farm in irresponsible, destructive ways—they do this abroad too (for example, the rainforests in South America). You also have gentrification because wealthy white people control who can live where. So I think there are a LOT of issues tied to private property (capitalism/classism, racism, colonialism, etc).

I wouldn’t say that ending private property would RESULT in an end to these injustices because if you still have the same oppressive forces in place, and you have something akin to the USSR or whatever you could have an oppressive regime recreate racism, classism and environmental degradation, so I think you need to end racism and other isms and that we need solidarity and to commit to actually tearing down kyriarchy as a whole, not just private property and capitalism. But I think abolishing private property and ownership of resources is part of that battle.

By private property I mean privately owned land, btw, not like, personal belongings (i.e. computers, books, furniture), those would still exist. (Under “private property” though I would also include resources and means/tools of labor i.e. drinking water, agricultural crops, factories, power plants, other goods and tools necessary to food production, etc supplies necessary to create goods/fulfill human needs). Under Marxism none of this would be privately owned by capitalists, as they have been appropriated from the workers (along with the workers’ labor) by capitalists… I strongly recommend reading Marx to anyone who hasn’t. His communist manifesto is only like forty-something pages. I am critical of certain elements of Marxism, but I think the overall ideas are incredibly important.

*as i said private property predates capitalism, but it proliferated with capitalism - prior to capitalism only aristocrats/royalty/ feudal lords had private property - vassals worked the land and/or soldiers protected lords to live on the land (also Marx argues that this is another classist system, and I’d argue private property is key to classism and you can never abolish the class system without abolishing private property)- with capitalism you make it so that anyone with enough money can own property -starting in the 1950s when the housing market changed, allowing anyone to buy a house if they pay a down payment and paid mortgage over some odd years - you have a MASSIVE increase home ownership (sort of, except of course, the bank technically owns your property until you pay it off) and the birth of suburbia and the middle class, and it’s been like that ever since in the US

also want to add that i’m still learning about marxism/communism/socialism so i’m sure some people could correct me on anything i get wrong