Quote for the day – November 9

Tags

E.P. Thompson

“The concept of exclusive property in land, as a norm to which other practices must be adjusted, was now extending across the whole globe, like a coinage reducing all things to a common measure. The concept was carried across the Atlantic, to the Indian sub-continent, and into the South Pacific, by British colonists, administrators, and lawyers, who, while not unaware of the force of local customs and land systems, struggled to construe these within their own measure of property”.

E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common

……………………..

Winter Oak books: www.winteroak.org.uk/books

The Acorn info-bulletin:  www.winteroak.org.uk/acorn

Quote for the day – June 26

Tags

Customs in Common, E.P. Thompson, police, violence

“A great part of politics and law is always theatre; once a social system has become ‘set’, it does not need to be endorsed daily by exhibitions of power (although occasional punctuations of force will be made to define the limits of the system’s tolerance)”.

E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common

 

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – May 4

Tags

E.P. Thompson, enclosures, land

“Enclosure, in taking the commons away from the poor, made them strangers in their own land”.

E.P. Thompson, Customs in Common