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The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

Linebaugh, Peter (2008). University of California Press

Threads: Commons

Summary

A history of the Charter of the Forest alongside Magna Carta, showing how commoners’ rights to subsistence were tied to political liberty, and how enclosure eroded both.

Why it’s useful here

Source of the “commoning” verb (“there is no commons without commoning”), which underlies the name Recommon. It supplies the historical framing for posts about enclosure of the digital commons.

Key ideas

  • Commoning as embedded in labor and practice
  • Enclosure as a recurring process
  • federici-2004-caliban-and-the-witch.md
  • bollier-helfrich-2019-free-fair-and-alive.md

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