David Rovics

11 years ago

Richard L. Biddle

Land value is the commons because it is created by the community of all people and not by the 'owners' of particular pieces of land. We could say to the owners: pay us the rent. We already do this to some extent via the property tax. We could continue to take back what is ours by shifting the bulk of taxation off of our earned incomes from labor and real capital investment in the real economy onto community created land and natural resource values. Sure, go ahead use OUR land; pay us the rent in full.

11 years ago

Wendell Fitzgerald

Land value is the commons because it is created by the community of all people and not by the 'owners' of particular pieces of land. We could say to the owners: pay us the rent. We already do this to some extent via the property tax. We could continue to take back what is ours by shifting the bulk of taxation off of our earned incomes from labor and real capital investment in the real economy onto community created land and natural resource values. Sure, go ahead use OUR land; pay us the rent in full.

11 years ago

neilemac

Have a dedicated playlist of David's anthems taking on just about every major global issue needing scrutiny. One of the few honest and openly free voices of our times who must be heard. Please support him wherever he plays.

11 years ago

CommonsDeutschland

hey david, we shared this song at our Commons Summer School in Germany in June 2012 and you should hear them singing it now, I guess it's not an overstatement to say that it became the hymn of our Sommerschool. Thanks!!

11 years ago

takvera

Claiming commons as private property is theft. It violates the traditional rights to all users of that common property. Converting commons to western privatised property, whether 'owned' by individuals or the state, has been accompanied by force and bloodshed. eg the English enclosures since the 16th century, the colonisation, occupation and dispossession of indigenous peoples the world over. The degradation of the last commons: the air we breathe and the world's oceans, is proceeding apace.

11 years ago

OnlyAPersonHere

also, in places where there is no individual private property rights, there is greater social disparity. Look at any Indian reservation. You can't claim tracts of ocean as a fisherman. I don't have to have an immediate solution to these problems. In the 19th century you didn't have to answer the question, "who will pick the cotton?" to know that slavery is wrong.

11 years ago

OnlyAPersonHere

claiming property as a commons when it violates the property rights of the individual is wrong, and causes more chaos then when the individual voluntarily subscribes his property to a commons. The things that we call a commons, today, are often the things which cause the most damages. i.e. roads, oceans, etc. the issue in the tragedy of the commons is that it is not clear how the commons is established, and imo is nearly always established through the initiation of force against an individual.

11 years ago

takvera

Commons stewardship is not the same as state ownership. Privatising the commons has resulted in so much human poverty, hardship and environmental degradation for the greed, wealth and power of a few. In the end we all suffer the results in the alienation of common entitlements leading to environmental degradation of our environment, our planet.

11 years ago

OnlyAPersonHere

I claim your house as a commons, and I say its for 'conservation', then a few years later I sell it at a reduced price to foresting companies whom paid my way into office. I'm the state. private property is the solution not the enemy to the tragedy of the commons.

13 years ago

staroidster

Great song, David. I caught your show at OccupySolidarity in Olympia, and am fanning out. Thanks, DPBristol for the chords. . I think it will be good to let people remember what "The Commons" is, and who is stealing our National Heritage.

13 years ago

unfortunatebeam

|'d say Rovics is the best genuine protest folk singer since bob dylan or even pete seeger

13 years ago

rtnslnd

@LibSoc68 what radical left movement? all I see is a bunch of sectarianism and factionalism with no unity, dialogue, or debate - let alone mass rallies or movement building. we're all focused on theory & puritanism and not on actually changing anything. I'm with you comrade but there is no radical left movement to join at this point... the best we can organize for at the moment is sparking class consciousness so workers begin to unionize again. that's not even radical, but it's a start.

13 years ago

karzon70

yay me! disliker number 2

14 years ago

MrKingsandCastles

Is there ever was a musician to whom Tom Lehrer's son "The Folk Resistance Army" applied 100%, it's David Rovics. Powerful lyrics, not much else.

14 years ago

David Peek

This great song is not in The David Rovics Songbook. I figured out some chords (correct I think) and thought someone else might be interested: Capo 4th fret Verse: C/ FCG/ C/ FCG/ FCG/ FCG/ C/ FCG Chorus: CG/ Am FG/ FCG/ C F(G)C

15 years ago

takvera

glad you like it. I had a lot of fun making it. It was one of my 2D animation projects for my Diploma of Multimedia

15 years ago

treebeard384

MEGA cool

16 years ago

ElOttomanPrince

Oh plz and you think people will beleive this???

16 years ago

JusDuckie

Yeah, well, I've known him my entire life, and he's a douche.

16 years ago

AnarchistCommunity

lmao. Introduce it to him via email or myspace or somthing, even if he doesnt do it I am sure it will be prodominant in his thoughts in some way or another.

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Richard L. Biddle

Wendell Fitzgerald

neilemac

CommonsDeutschland

takvera

OnlyAPersonHere

OnlyAPersonHere

takvera

OnlyAPersonHere

staroidster

unfortunatebeam

rtnslnd

karzon70

MrKingsandCastles

David Peek

takvera

treebeard384

ElOttomanPrince

JusDuckie

AnarchistCommunity

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