Stop, Thief!

The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance

Peter Linebaugh

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PM Press
10 June 2014

History

In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. ""Neither the state nor the market,"" say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle the embers of memory to ignite our future commons.

From Thomas Paine to the Luddites, from Karl Marx-who concluded his great study of capitalism with the enclosure of commons-to the practical dreamer William Morris-who made communism into a verb and advocated communizing industry and agriculture-to the 20th-century communist historian E.P. Thompson, Linebaugh brings to life the vital commonist tradition. He traces the red thread from the great revolt of commoners in 1381 to the enclosures of Ireland, and the American commons, where European immigrants who had been expelled from their commons met the immense commons of the native peoples and the underground African-American urban commons. Illuminating these struggles in this indispensable collection, Linebaugh reignites the ancient cry, ""STOP, THIEF!""

By: Peter Linebaugh
Imprint: PM Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 332g
ISBN: 9781604867473
ISBN 10: 1604867477
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 10 June 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Linebaugh is a historian, a professor at the University of Toledo, the coauthor of Albion's Fatal Tree and The Many Headed Hydra, and the author of The London Hanged and The Magna Carta Manifesto. His articles have appeared in publications that include CounterPunch, the New Left Review, New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.

Reviews for Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance

Linebaugh's essay collection is not only an historian's reading of history, but intended also as a spiritual uplifting for modern dissidents and activists, a writing of history that liberates and encourages radical possibilities, the 'resistance' in his title not only referring to the subject matter of his text, but to the present and to the future. --Rowan Cahill, radicalsydney.blogspot.com.au