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Month: October 2022

The Greater and Better Charter

Practically every school student knows about the Magna Carta. In contrast, few are acquainted with the Charter of the Forests – the Carta de Foresta.  (Only two copies of this second charter survive, one of them at Lincoln Cathedral and the other at Durham Cathedral.) While Magna Carta spoke mainly of the rights of the barons, the Forest Charter…

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Simpler is Better

Critics of the World Socialist Movement assert it is impossible to have an economy which excludes such things as prices, money and wages, claiming that these are necessarily exist in any economy. The WSM says it is well documented by anthropologists, that there has been many societies which has not involved a monetary economy – in fact some exist…

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