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A 6 page consideration of the varied ideologies concerning land ownership and control in England. The contention is presented that land was a central idea to English radicalism from the seventeenth century to the present. While the specifics of the ideology of how land should be controlled and managed varied overtime, there was a consistent belief that the masses should control the land. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to Dongas: The Land in English Radicalism, 1649-2000" author Alun Howkins explores the contention that land has a central yet changing place in English Radicalism. This contention is,
in fact, valid in some regards but invalid in others. English land has indeed been a critical element in most all of the radical and popular movements that have
occurred in England. This does not discount the fact that, as Howkins (2002) observes, "modern England has been dominated by the concerns of the urban and industrial world".
That certainly has been the case. Central to that world, however, is the land upon which that world was built and the land from which the laborers that fueled
that industrial and urban world originated. Also central was the ongoing concern for that land and the integral belief by the masses that ownership and control of the land
should be retained by them and not just the privileged and powerful. The thesis can thus be presented that:
land was a central idea to English radicalism from the seventeenth century to the present. While the specifics of the ideology of how land
should be controlled and managed varied overtime, there was a consistent belief that the masses should control the land.
To some, Marx and Engels included, rural life was somehow inferior to the industrial and city life to which modern England transitioned in recent history.
Part of this gross misperception is based in the exageration of the benefits industrialization brought to the nation. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution was quite complex and influential on the
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