Common land
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| + | "[[Karl Marx|[M]arx]] would have called [[Gustave Flaubert|Flaubert]] a [[bourgeois]] in the politico-economic sense and Flaubert would have called Marx a bourgeois in the spiritual sense; and both would have been right since, Flaubert was a well-to-do gentleman in physical life and Marx was a [[philistinism|philistine]] in his attitude towards the arts" --[[Gustave Flaubert|Nabokov]] in ''[[Lectures on Literature]]''. | ||
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| + | Karl Marx, on the pages of the ''[[Rheinische Zeitung]]'' fought for freedom of expression against Prussian censorship and made a rather idealist, legal defense for the Moselle peasants' customary [[common land|right of collecting firewood]] in the forest (this right was at the point of being criminalized and privatized by the state). It was Marx's inability to penetrate beneath the legal and polemical surface of the latter issue to its materialist, economic, and social roots that prompted him to critically study political economy. See [[gleaning]], [[theft by finding]], [[rural poverty]] | ||
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| '''Common land''' (a '''common''') is land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel. | '''Common land''' (a '''common''') is land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel. | ||
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"[M]arx would have called Flaubert a bourgeois in the politico-economic sense and Flaubert would have called Marx a bourgeois in the spiritual sense; and both would have been right since, Flaubert was a well-to-do gentleman in physical life and Marx was a philistine in his attitude towards the arts" --Nabokov in Lectures on Literature. Karl Marx, on the pages of the Rheinische Zeitung fought for freedom of expression against Prussian censorship and made a rather idealist, legal defense for the Moselle peasants' customary right of collecting firewood in the forest (this right was at the point of being criminalized and privatized by the state). It was Marx's inability to penetrate beneath the legal and polemical surface of the latter issue to its materialist, economic, and social roots that prompted him to critically study political economy. See gleaning, theft by finding, rural poverty |
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Common land (a common) is land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect firewood, or to cut turf for fuel.
See also
- Ager publicus
- Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine
- Citizen's dividend
- Commons
- Crown Estate
- Exmoor – still grazed by commoners' ponies and sheep.
- Flurbereinigung
- Ithaca Commons
- Leyton Marshes in London, historically Lammas land.
- Pasture
- Property rights (economics)
- Res extra commercium
- Rights of Way
- Satoyama – Japanese term for rural lands used in common by villagers.
- Tragedy of the anticommons
- Wong – a local term for common.
Historical movements in defence of English commons
Key theorists of the commons
