What do we mean by 'common'?

 


By the ‘common’
we mean, first of all, the common wealth of the material world – the air, the
water, the fruits of the soil, and all nature’s bounty – which in classic
European political texts is often claimed to be the inheritance of the humanity
as a whole, to be shared together. We consider the commons also, and more
significantly those results of social production that are necessary