Findings from developmental science offer mixed support for this theory, mainly due to the fact that the findings have shown both support for and against this theory. Therefore contradicting each other, which makes it impossible to prove this theory with the findings that already exist from the developmental science approach.
Marx's conception of private property has proven influential for many subsequent economic theories and for communist, socialist and anarchist, political movements, and led to the widespread association of private property—particularly private property in the means of production—with capitalism.
