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Day: November 17, 2019

The story of enclosures in Britain had a (sort of) happy ending – why don’t we talk about it?

Posted on 17 November, 201917 November, 2019 by preorg

The left in Britain has a great narrative of loss in the story of enclosures. The rich stole the land of the commoners, forcing them to be wage slaves at best, forcibly urbanised slumdwellers dying from disease at worst. The narrative was written strongly and passionately by Marx, and many of the best social historians…

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