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.

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Chumbawumba has an album of olde tyme British rebel songs!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5zQ1xNekgr4MeiVCfCIVpJFYr1G8sGz

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Someone probably linked it already but The True Levellers Standard Advanced is fucking good and good to read. Try it

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So I have something interesting regarding this.

I used to think β€œThe commons was England being based, huh. We’ll give them one.” 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 Britain’s 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

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Saxons go home.

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