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Seen at an unpermitted community garden: 
"The Goose and the Common," a 17th century poem protesting enclosure. #ourstreets
source: https://st-just.tumblr.com/post/188396298117/found-by-the-community-garden-some-lovely-people
discussion of historical context: https://wewererogue.tumblr.com/post/188396888491/feyariel-we-are-rogue-karasu-dono
@twistylittlepassages it can't be reiterated enough that the origins of modern capitalism lie not in some divine mandate as a lot of economists and other apologists would have us believe, but in exactly the theft under color of law this poem decries
it doesn't have to be this way. it wasn't this way before, and it can not be this way again