Private property != personal property

Means of production is not the same as the shoes on your feet. It's just unfortunately confusing terminology that leads to twisted argumentation.

Btw, the alternative to capitalist liberal states is not exclusively authoritarian marxist-leninist communism. Not all anti-capitalists are pining for another different boot to lick.

A tool (boot, glove, knife, hammer, etc) is easily both the means of production and personal property. The distinction is in effect meaningless.

A hammer isn’t a factory. There is a distinction, unless you don’t think industrialization had any effect on society.

The rhetoric around the means of production was initially in reference to slaves. Communism was an offshoot of the abolition movement not in reference to at the time minimal number of factories. And in that context people did abandon slavery.

Even today factories aren’t the means of production, they don’t make houses that’s mostly people with hand tools. Nor do they make food or mine resources etc.

What point are you trying to make here? Marx’s writings were based on his observations of factories and industry in England at the time, among other things.

Marx was not the origin of communism. Which is why he was credited with the Marxism not communism.

The context for his writing wasn’t simply factory conditions being so so bad he created an ideology from whole cloth.

This entire thread was in response to police stealing in the US, and someone responded referencing communists. Given they context, they were clearly talking about Marxism. The guy you responded to explicitly mentioned that. And then you go off on some other interpretation of the same words, clearly misinterpreting what they posted to argue some other point.

Assuming someone misspoke to support your point is a bit much.

That is an imaginary distinction which only exists to anti-capitalists to have their cake and it eat too, along with a continuation of their ongoing torrid love-affair of creating their own sophistic definitions. Everyone else says more or less "that is private property you fool!".

In theory, communism can reject the concept of private property, but in practice, all property ownership is "private", as any finite quantity of matter and space must necessarily be controlled by someone in particular at the exclusion of everyone else if it is to be used by anyone at all. So the practical differences are merely aesthetic.

It is a bit like someone making a mess in the office kitchen and you complaining, "you're just like my kid."

Your kid may also be messy, but the two messes have nothing to do with each other, bringing your kid in to it serves no useful purpose, and people may reasonably wonder why you're focusing on your kid's messiness in unrelated contexts.