[10] In a parallel way, Marx describes
the bestial form of counterposing to marriage (certainly a form of exclusive private property) the community of women, in which a woman becomes a piece of communal and common property. It may be said that this idea of the community of women gives away the secret of this as yet crude and thoughtless communism. Just as the woman passes from marriage to a general prostitution, so the entire world of wealth … passes from the relationship of exclusive marriage with the owner of private property to a state of universal prostitution with the community. General envy, constituting itself as a power, is the disguise in which avarice re-establishes itself and satisfies itself, only in another way, in the form of envy and the urge to reduce to a common level. (82–83)