Interesting footnotes from @jembendell : < the commons is about ownership > "A significant part of what defines “the commons” is the social relations of ownership and governance around a resource (such as land, water, fisheries, forests, knowledge, etc.), whether codified in law or maintained through custom. Key is that such resources are not held by private individuals or by the state, and a community stewards them. Scholars have stated this explicitly, across political economy, law, anthropology and history. That includes Elinor Ostrom, Carol Rose, James Boyle, David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, and Arun Agrawal. In recognising the commons in that way, they align with the analysis of historians that the enclosure of traditional common land was a form of theft that enabled capitalist expansion, both in Europe and colonised territories. Anyone who argues that the concept of the commons and commoning is not about the nature of ownership, is either being modernist and limiting their notion of what constitutes ownership to a bureaucratic form, or is trying to undermine the potential challenge to capitalist power from a revival of the commons and the cooperative sector. In either case, we can be dismissive of anyone who seeks to confuse people on this matter – and question their intentions if they persist and influence others." jembendell.com/2025/09/15/cen…