'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno
We are
losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our
shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign
conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are
cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are
sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of
our common rights, recognized as far back as the Magna Carta and the
Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our
public wealth.
Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal
of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land
reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal
of the resources we all hold in common - a brilliant new synthesis that
crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1%
in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything
from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our
justice system, schools, newspapers and even the air we breathe. Plunder
of the Commons proposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of
remembering, guarding and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash
inequality and soothe our current political instability.
Plunder of the Commons : A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth - Guy Standing
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