The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
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A Little Marxism, Anyone?
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Linebaugh (yes, its not "Limbaugh") does some good, and some other stuff as well. His basic, and welcome contribution is to emphasize the seldom noticed "Charter of the Forests," the little brother of the Magna Carta, which deserves more attention.
Linebaug's disservice is seeing everything through "commoning" lenses, i.e., communist theory. If you, like me, don't read much Marxist revisionism, you will have a weary time plowing through all the references to "imminent" communists (largely unknown to me), who seem to have more ways of cooking the same communal stuff than Italian chefs have for preparing pasta.
And the distraction is regretable because it obscures an important point: since the time of William the Conquerer the way we have contolled and organized the economic use of land has been one of the central formative factors in the development of Western Civilization - if Western Civilization matters to progressive intellectuals any more.
Linebaugh sees nothing but goodness in "commoning" but I wondered how he would react if I "commoned" his car or his house or his library. |
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