Peter Linebaugh

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

Forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and plants of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.

The environmental crisis isn’t the result of the “tragedy of the commons.” It’s the result of the commons’ theft and privatization for profit.

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

Or, a lost freedom story I found while looking for something else.