Common land
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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 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====See also
- Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine
- Crown Estate
- Enclosure
- English land law
- Estovers
- Exmoor
- Georgism
- Leyton Marshes and Leicester Square in London, historically lammas land
- Pasture
- Rights of way in England and Wales
- Royal forest
- Satoyama
- Tragedy of the commons
- Village green
Historical movements in defence of English commons
Key theorists of the commons
