The 54th issue of Jacobin, published summer 2024, covers the rural-urban divide and the future of left-wing rural organizing.
“True commonwealth’s freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the earth. True freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth. For as man is compounded of the four materials of the creation, fire, water, earth, and air; so is he preserved by the compounded bodies of these four, which are the fruits of the earth; and he cannot live without them. For take away the free use of these and the body languishes, the spirit is brought into bondage.”
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform, 16