Enclosure of common resources has repeatedly been reversed historically.

Evidence

History is filled with successful struggles against earlier forms of enclosure—colonial powers were ejected from their onetime colonies; foreign-owned mines and oil fields have been nationalized and put under public control; Indigenous peoples have won legal victories reclaiming sovereign control over their ancestral territories. Unjust ownership structures have been changed before and they can be changed again. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 284

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece’s infrastructure theme and more directly parallels the enclosure history at stake in that article’s account of land as commons.
• XREF: connects to: Twentieth-century Swedish land reforms dismantled communal extraction commons. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 43; Political settlements shift from impossible to inevitable through historical reversal — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2153