Staggering inequality in a “green and pleasant land” (The War Against the Commons reviewed in ‘The Resolute Reader’)
February 20, 2024
Land, animals, wood, forests and space itself was converted into a commodity that could be bought and sold. Fields were engrossed, land was enclosed, commons were privatised. The peasants who lived from the land, were expelled or turned into wage labourers – their old traditions and histories erased.