From Commons to Capitalism
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8 min readDec 12, 2019
Private property is a recent development in human history, albeit one that has come to dominate how we understand the world. It wasn’t always this way…
Words: Peter Barnes
Illustration: Fuchsia MacAree
In the beginning, the commons was everywhere. Humans roamed through it, hunting and gathering to meet their needs. Like other species, we had territories but these…