Trads, conservatives, and other dorks insists that property is a natural concept born out of human selfishness.
Yet history show that whenever they are left unsupervised for even just a moment, the commoners would always try to rebel against the rulers and redistribute wealth.
Chumbawumba has an album of olde tyme British rebel songs!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5zQ1xNekgr4MeiVCfCIVpJFYr1G8sGz
Someone probably linked it already but The True Levellers Standard Advanced is fucking good and good to read. Try it
So I have something interesting regarding this.
I used to think βThe commons was England being based, huh. Weβll give them one.β It kinda made no sense, but I bit the bullet.
But remember what England is: originally Celtic, with Roman, then Saxon and Norman layers.
It all made sense whenI read Recognizing and Moving on from a Failed Paradigm: The Case of Agricultural Landscapes in Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 400-800. Susan Oosthuizen 1 Journal of Archaeological Research volume 24, pages 179-227 (2016)
She shows that the commonage tradition is a remainder of Britainβs indigenous Celtic lifeways, which then got compromised and mixed with imperialistic legal systems like the Roman. This makes an internal English struggle a struggle between based communal nativelaws and property-based invaderlaws