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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, anti-capitalist movements around the world have renewed calls to defend and resurrect the commons. The commons. This term goes back centuries.

It's invoked as an idiom of resistance to its antagonist, enclosure, the process of theft

and domination that paved the way for capitalist private property, and that continues to do so today.

We encounter the concepts of the commons and enclosure in discussions about everything from the right to public space to the neoliberal attack on democratic culture to ever multiplying threats to our common air and water.

In this two-part series, I explore the long and expansive history of commons and commoning

with Peter Linebaugh, of whom Robin Kelly said, quote,

there is not a more important historian living today, period.

This episode covers a lot of English history, among other things, and, funny enough,

I will be in London on Friday, March 13th, hosting a party for dig listeners alongside

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