Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
The Commons
Chapter 1 Some Principles of the Commons 13
Chapter 2 Stop, Thief! A Primer on the Commons & Commoning 16
Chapter 3 The City and the Commons; A Story for Our Times 24
"Charles Marks"
Chapter 4 Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working-Class Composition: A Contribution to the Current Debate 43
Chapter 5 Frau Gertrude Kugelmann and the Five Gates of Marxism 65
The "UK"
Chapter 6 Ned Ludd Qc Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12 77
Chapter 7 Foreword to E.P. Thompson's William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary 108
Chapter 8 Preface to the Korean Edition of The Magna Carta Manifesto 135
Chapter 9 Enclosures from the Bottom Up 142
Chapter 10 Wat Tyler Day: The Anglo Juneteenth 159
The "USA"
Chapter 11 Introduction to Thomas Paine 177
Chapter 12 Meandering at the Crossroads of Communism and the Commons 201
"First Nations"
Chapter 13 "The Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck"-A Story of 1802: Historical Materialism, Indigenous People, and the Failed Republic 217
Chapter 14 The Commons, the Castle, the Witch, and the Lynx 237
Chapter 15 The Invisibility of the Commons 249
Notes 257
Index 274
