An excellent book that describes how the English have been systematically excluded from their land since the Norman conquest. How they continued to be further excluded by people who got rich from slavery and how it serves those who now control that land to direct the anger of normal folk at immigrants, who are often fleeing problems caused by that same class of "elites" around the world.
by Cretaegus
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I came upon this general topic some time before 2021 by reading Thomas Paine’s tract *Agrarian Justice*. Then I found that Thomas Jefferson endorsed the same “common land” principle in a 1785 letter to James Madison, and I found that many others like Rousseau and Locke also endorsed it. I’ve come to the conclusion that it was a widespread, maybe even orthodox, opinion among classical republicans of the 17th and 18th centuries that land and air, being natural things, should not be legally or morally categorised as private property as though it were man-made capital.