Comments on: The Commons and Co-operative Commonwealth https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-commons-and-co-operative-commonwealth/2013/11/28 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Øyvind Holmstad https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-commons-and-co-operative-commonwealth/2013/11/28/comment-page-1#comment-567338 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:13:53 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=34436#comment-567338 A very relevant recent article by David Bollier on the theme.

– The Fateful Choice: The Pilgrims Assign Private Property Rights in Land: http://bollier.org/blog/fateful-choice-pilgrims-assign-private-property-rights-land

From his essay:

“As Bradford wrote: ‘‘And no man now thought he could live except he had catle and a great deale of ground to keep them all, all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the bay quickly and the towne in which they lived compactly till now was left very thinne.’’ You might say that private property rights in land were the beginning of suburban sprawl.”

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