[ You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society,
private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the
few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us,
therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose
existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is
just what we intend. ] -- Communist Manifesto (pg 23)

Here, Marx's reference to 'you' is the bourgeois.

I'm no communist, but I thought it might help to clarify that Marx's goal was more to do away with property owned by any select class of people than to call it 'public'. He wanted it in the hands of the lowest class (the proletariat), and in so doing destroy the bourgeois class and the very concept of a social hierarchy.

I find it ironic however, that he thought it best to do this by allowing the state to govern it. As if the state would not become its own class. How he lacked this foresight I'll never know.