Saturday, 4 June 2022 — Climate & Capitalism
Capital vs Commons, 6
“When a people create landlords, they create tyrants and oppressors”
Tag: the commons
Plaque in NewcastleAgainst Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back
Saturday, 15 January 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 5
Three centuries of mass resistance to privatization and dispossession
Articles in this series:
- Commons and classes before capitalism
- ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
- Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
- Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
- Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back
by Ian Angus
In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a dissolved monastery, Wilton Abbey near Salisbury. Herbert didn’t need farmland, so he had the buildings torn down, expelled the monastery’s tenants, and physically destroyed an entire village. In their place he built a large mansion, and fenced off the surrounding lands as a private park for hunting.
The New Dark Age 