Just reading an article by Guy Standing in the Mint Magazine - https://www.themintmagazine.com/common-grievance/
He said:
“Commoning is a verb,” he reminds us. “It’s not just about resources. It’s about shared activities, shared risks, shared benefits. It’s about social solidarity.” He points to allotments, cooperatives, Latin America’s Via Campesina movement, and African Ubuntu traditions as living examples. Even the National Health Service, he argues, was founded as a commons in 1948. “It belonged to everybody. Now it’s being privatised by stealth. But it still belongs to us, and we shouldn’t have it taken away.”
- so he's saying that the NHS is commons? I'm confused. The NHS is owned by the state. How on earth can the state be commons? Of course it's being privatised. It was only created because states at that time was afraid that Europe was going to become communist. Now there's no threat of that happening, they're giving it back to corporations.
For me, the state is firmly in the grip of the corporates. It's not at all commons. What do you think?
