The Rule of Property

by Karen Coulter

The Apex Press

2007, paperback

SKU: 9781891843389

We were able to unearth a handful of these 2007 booklets on The Rule of Property, by consummate environmentalist and radical, Karen Coulter. Get yours while they last…

The Rule of Property challenges conventional approaches to private property versus the public good, explores ways in which the U.S. Constitution was framed to protect private property, and advocates organized resistance to corporate enclosures of the modern commons.

Reviews:

“Radicalism and pamphleteering have always been natural partners. So they are again in this delightful and penetrating attack on conventional thinking about property by Karen Coulter.” -- Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States 

“In the very distant past, people had a limited sense of property. A man could own his own spear, and a woman, her own digging stick. Then came PROGRESS, and one could own land and a slave to work it. Now that “progress” has taken over most parts of the world, we struggle from crisis to crisis. Karen Coulter’s essay helps us find a way out of our predicament.” -- Pete Seeger, folk singer and environmental activist

About the Author:

Karen Coulter is Director of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in eastern Oregon and a principal activist in POCLAD (Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy.