Tuesday, February 12, 2019

We Don't Even Live Here!

Anarchist rapper POS has a song that would go over well with the Diggers, I think. He professes in the song that "this world's got a whole lot of locked doors. We decided not to live here anymore." The common land that the Diggers had settled they considered to be above the private property of the local landowners. They don't care for the boundaries of private property because of how property is monopolized by the rich. In their manifesto, the Diggers write that the "Earth that is... made a Common Store-house for all, is bought and sold, and kept in the hands of the few..." Similarly, POS responds in his song to the rich's property rights to "trust no rich folks empty out the tummy on your math," which, according to Rapgenius, shows how rich people will use mathy macroeconomics to justify their wealth and by extension poverty and homelessness through the monopolization of private property (which makes people want to puke).

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