The Violence of Property
I will say this again: we have lived without these notions of unlimited property rights and pervasive ownership for much longer than we have lived with them.
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White privilege and global capitalism have roots in private property rights
To face the complexities of the 21st century, we must be open to discussing how core elements of modern capitalism were founded upon and created to uphold white Western economic privilege, and still do.
A small farm future – the case for distributed private property
In this post and the next, I aim to lay out some issues about property relations by sketching how they might work in a semi-autarkic rural community or region within a small farm future.
Of grain and gulags: a note on work, labour and self-ownership
Self-possession implies property in some sense – being able to claim a personal right to generate wellbeing from the world we share with other people and organisms.
On the Existence of Independence
It is Independence Day. This is the worst holiday ever created. Even if you leave out the explosions.
Growing the Commonsverse: Rethinking Property
Property law as it is today systemically privileges the individual versus the collective, self-serving control over relationships, and exchange value over intrinsic or use value.
Property Rights, Inequality and Commons
I’d like to focus on the obsession in modern industrial societies to propertize everything, including life itself, and to use law as a tool to impose a social order of markets and private property as expansively as possible.
Showdown in Trans Pecos: Texas Ranchers Stand Up to Billionaires’ Export Pipeline
Mexico’s landmark energy reforms are already having impacts north of the border, and nowhere more acutely than Texas.
The Commons and the Legal Left at Harvard Law School
Can the boundary-bursting categories of the commons penetrate the mighty citadel of Harvard Law School and its entrenched ways of thinking about property, markets and law?
The Fateful Choice: The Pilgrims Assign Private Property Rights in Land
In 1623, William Bradford, the future governor of the colony, declared that land would be privately owned and managed, with each family assigned a parcel of land “according to the proportion of their number.”