MikeF<p>In 1649<br>To St. George's Hill<br>A ragged band they called the Diggers<br>Came to show the people's will<br>They defied the landlords<br>They defied the laws<br>They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs<br>We come in peace they said<br>To dig and sow<br>We come to work the lands in common<br>And to make the waste grounds grow<br>This earth divided<br>We will make whole<br>So it will be<br>A common treasury for all<br>The sin of property<br>We do disdain<br>No man has any right to buy and sell<br>The earth for private gain<br>By theft and murder<br>They took the land<br>Now everywhere the walls<br>Spring up at their command<br>They make the laws<br>To chain us well<br>The clergy dazzle us with heaven<br>Or they damn us into hell<br>We will not worship<br>The God they serve<br>The God of greed who feeds the rich<br>While poor men starve<br>We work we eat together<br>We need no swords<br>We will not bow to the masters<br>Or pay rent to the lords<br>We are free men<br>Though we are poor<br>You Diggers all stand up for glory<br>Stand up now<br>From the men of property<br>The orders came<br>They sent the hired men and troopers<br>To wipe out the Diggers' claim<br>Tear down their cottages<br>Destroy their corn<br>They were dispersed<br>But still the vision lingers on<br>You poor take courage<br>You rich take care<br>This earth was made a common treasury<br>For everyone to share<br>All things in common<br>All people one<br>We come in peace<br>The orders came to cut them down</p><p>- Billy Bragg, The World Turned Upside Down</p><p><a href="https://birds.town/tags/diggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diggers</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/levellers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>levellers</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/socialjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialjustice</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/peasantrevolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peasantrevolt</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/enclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enclosure</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/thecommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thecommons</span></a></p>
eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.
Administered by:
Server stats:
225active users
eupolicy.social: About · Profiles directory · Privacy policy
Mastodon: About · Get the app · Keyboard shortcuts · View source code · v4.4.1
#thecommons
0 posts · 0 participants · 0 posts today
Mark Mullen<p>Some concepts that help illuminate how progressives think about the world</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technofeudalism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TheCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCommons</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UBI</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a>, <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intersectionality</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CriticalRaceTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalRaceTheory</span></a>. You can say they are <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/radical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radical</span></a>. Whatevs. But compared to what's animating the other side, it's really pretty tame stuff. <a href="https://3m.fyi/posts/a-list-of-some-progressive-ideas/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">3m.fyi/posts/a-list-of-some-pr</span><span class="invisible">ogressive-ideas/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ProgressTerms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgressTerms</span></a></p>
Lance Eaton, PhD<p>excited that this piece was published in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today. I've had a lot of thoughts about <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a>, & <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/TheCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCommons</span></a> of late...<br><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/06/does-ai-have-a-copyright-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial</span><span class="invisible">sciences/2025/05/06/does-ai-have-a-copyright-problem/</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/PublicDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDomain</span></a></p>
Kostyn<p>Older white guy rants to me and a fem colleague about how the Ford government lets private long-term care coorprations/condo boards and landlords grift the living hell out of regular people, but prefaces his rant with, "and beleive me, I'm no socialist." I couldn't get a word in edge-wise, but I'd love to a have asked, "why not? And what do you want then?" I'm so glad that generally folks seem much more willing to use socialism and identify as a socialist (at least in the Anglo-Americas I experience) than they were even just 10 years ago, but encounters like these are bizzare. If you have a problem with private ownership of land, you really ought to have a problem with a socio-economic system that privileges just such an arrangement and trends, pretty well inevitability, towards (neo)liberalism and then the slide to fascism. Socialism (/anarchism/communism/communalism, etc.) is the alternative, friend. </p><p><a href="https://niagara.social/tags/OnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnPoli</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/TheFords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheFords</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Ford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ford</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/QueensPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueensPark</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/WagTheDoug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WagTheDoug</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/PoliticalEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomics</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Housing</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/CostOfLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOfLiving</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Communalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communalism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/DegrowthCommunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DegrowthCommunism</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/TheCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCommons</span></a> <a href="https://niagara.social/tags/ABetterWorldIsPossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABetterWorldIsPossible</span></a></p>
TrendingLive feeds
Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what's happening.
Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight.
Create accountLoginDrag & drop to upload