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Claims of ownership are only as legitimate as the potential to do violence to assert such claims.
by specialist 4y ago
Claims of ownership are only as legitimate as the potential to do violence to assert such claims.
- pyuser583 4y agoAuthority isn’t always rooted in force or threat of force. “The commons” is/was publicly owned, but without any real threat of force behind it.
- nwah1 4y agoThe commons was managed in a decentralized manner, but indeed there were consequences for violating the written or unwritten rules. And government was often involved in managing them historically. Hence the poem: >The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose.
- emmelaich 4y agoThat's great. Here's it set to music. https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegooseandthecommon.html https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegooseandthecommon.h... and wikipedia on the Enclosure acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts