A Short History of Enclosure in Britain | The Land Magazine
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A Short History of Enclosure in Britain | The Land Magazine
Enclosure s have appropriately been called a revolution of the rich is against the poor. The lords and nobles were upsetting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure and intimidation. They were literally robbing the poor of their share in the common, tearing down the houses which, by... See more
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Mattei’s point ties in with the history of the commons, from Garrett Hardin’s famous article on The Tragedy of the Commons, often taken to be a rallying cry for privatisation (or, though it is rarely mentioned, for total government control), to its refutation by Elinor Ostrom (Mattei points out that Friedrich Engels had already demonstrated the... See more
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Cercamiento, campo cerrado o enclosure. Es un término, utilizado en la propiedad agraria inglesa, que hace referencia a la apropiación de "baldíos" o "tierra común" y, al hacerlo, privar a los plebeyos de sus derechos de acceso y privilegio.
I was encouraged to pursue this path after noticing that in North China, where dry cereals were the staple crops, a pattern of development of technology and of relations of production rather similar to that of Northwest Europe had started to emerge in the early centuries AD, typified by the formation of large estates, centrally managed and heavily
... See moreJohn Locke, who held that individuals had a right to turn natural resources that belonged to no one into individual property for personal use, through labor. The Lockean idea justified all manner of accomplishments and violations in American history, including the colonial seizure of Native lands and the justification of resource extraction via the
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