Socialists were against private property and saw it as the root of all social ills of the time. Why ?

 Socialists were against private property and saw it as the root of all social ills of the time. Why ?

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Socialists were against private property. According to them the individuals who owned the property gave employment but the propertied were concerned only with personal gain. They were not bothered about the welfare of the people who made the property productive.