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War Against the Commons

Name: War Against the Commons
Brand: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
SKU: 9781685900175
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Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism

Szerző: Ian Angus

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Monthly Review Press,U.S.

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A unique historical account of poor peoples' self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of t...

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Szerző

Ian Angus

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2023

oldal

246

EAN

9781685900175

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43650838

Kiadó

Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Súly

472

Méretek

140 x 216 x 19

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A unique historical account of poor peoples' self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of their lands and labor

For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults known as enclosures or clearances, shared common land became privately-owned capital, and peasant farmers became propertyless laborers who could only survive by working for the owners of land or capital.

As Ian Angus documents in The War Against the Commons, mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased. His dramatic account provides new insights into an opposition that ranged from stubborn non-compliance to open rebellion, including eyewitness accounts of campaigns in which thousands of protestors tore down fences and restored common access to pastures and forests. Such movements, he shows, led to the Diggers' call for a new society based on shared ownership and use of the land, an appeal that was more sophisticated and radical than anything else written before the 1800s.

Contrary to many accounts that treat the reorganization of agriculture as a purely domestic matter, Angus shows that there were close connections between the enclosures in Britain and imperial expansion. The consolidation of some of the largest estates in England and Scotland was directly financed by the forced labor of African slaves and the colonial plunder of India.

This unique historical account of ruling class robbery and poor peoples' resistance offers answers to key questions about the history of capitalism. Was enclosure a "necessary evil" that enabled economic growth? What role did deliberate promotion of hunger play in the creation of the working class? How did Marx and Engels view the separation of workers from the land, and how does resistance to enclosure continue in the 21st century?

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