A (very brief) History of Land Ownership (The Theological Case for #LandBack, Footnote 1)
Channel: Tobiah
Date: 2022-02-05

DISCLAIMER: I am not a historian by training. I have done my best to check the facts of this video with various sources, but I cannot guarantee the accuracy of every statement. Please double-check your history with reliable sources, beyond the ramblings of one guy on YouTube!

This video is a footnote to my recent video, "The Theological Case for #LandBack". In that video, I asserted that private land ownership and colonialist land occupation were fundamentally connected to capitalism. In this video, I seek to elucidate that claim further by discussing the historical developments in land ownership in England from the 1500s to the present day, using the shift from feudal to capitalist land relations to demonstrate the centrality of private and colonial land ownership to the modern capitalist system.

Original video: https://youtu.be/kbnC1-oen0o

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References:
[1] Guy Shrubsole (2020) ‘Is it time to extend our Right to Roam?’, BMC - https://www.thebmc.co.uk/its-time-to-extend-our-right-to-roam 
[2] Saint Andrewism (2021) ‘Rethinking Human History’, YouTube - https://youtu.be/hTREU-xVeY0 
[3] Bowles, Samuel and Jung-Kyoo Choi (2013) ‘Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene’, PNAS, 110(22): 8830-8835 - https://www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8830 
[4] Wikipedia, `Enclosure’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure 
[5] Monbiot, George (1995) ‘A Land Reform Manifesto’, The Guardian - https://www.monbiot.com/1995/02/22/a-land-reform-manifesto/
[6] Wikipedia, ‘Land Tenure’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_tenure
[7] Yamini Chauhan, Grace Young, and the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1998) ‘Enclosure’, Encyclopedia Britannica - https://www.britannica.com/topic/enclosure
[8] Radical History! (2020) ‘The Enclosure of the Commons’, YouTube - https://youtu.be/fBsNAPJbBzw 
[9] J.R. Wordie (1983) ‘The Chronology of English Enclosure, 1500-1914’, The Economic History Review, 36(4): 483-505 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2597236.pdf 
[10] Wikipedia, ‘Dissolution of the monasteries’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries 
[11] Wikipedia, ‘Midland Revolt’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Revolt 
[12] Imogen Tyler (2021) ‘Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World’, Connected Sociologies - https://youtu.be/ZaCZG4mw2aQ  
[13] Stephen Graham (2013) ‘Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism’, OpenDemocracy - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opensecurity/foucaults-boomerang-new-military-urbanism/ 
[14] Step Back (2021) ‘How Kyle Rittenhouse Got Away with M-----‘, YouTube - https://youtu.be/UkUe0wqQREY 
[15] Karl Marx (1867) ‘Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land’, in ‘Capital: A Critique of Political Economy’, Verlag von Otto Meisner - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch27.htm 
[16] Ella Fassler (2021) ‘The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective’, Narratively - https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

I also mention a JohntheDuncan video on Primitive Accumulation in an aside added after the original recording, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/wyRDjh45GcQ?si=WBdo19YqtvYseuXh.