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I believe smaller communities who have attempted to retain a precapitalist idea of the commons are the last stronghold.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2021

Production multiplied to a degree that is difficult to believe, considering how close the precapitalist world was to the Middle Ages in most material conditions of life.

From Time Magazine Archive