The Commons

The term, The Commons may have once referred to central park-lands in cities which were owned by the whole community. In modern usage, it refers to property, resources, ideas, traditions and heritage of a State or Nation. Extreme Conservatives and neoliberals are antagonistic to Public or Common ownership, and see any continuation or defense of common property as an unjust interference with their liberties.

Liberals, and most sane people for that matter, understand that the commons, especially the environment, belongs to all of us, and that we have a duty to preserve and protect it and an absolute right to prevent others from degrading it.