I remember stories about the early days of Castro's Cuba and how an actress who fled to the USA had all her trophies for her acting taken from her and made State Property. I remember it being treated as a cautionary tale of the evils of Socialism (*cough propaganda) using the argument that the Cuban State under Castro did not understand nor care about the difference between private property and personal property (which I find to be a very suspect argument, personally).

I mean fuck me, but this is no different. He's effectively selling his own memorabilia that he had kept for himself to stay alive. Selling it to the highest bidder, and the highest bidder is almost assuredly some parasite of the capitalist class.