CONTENTS
Christianity and utopia
Utopia without property
Territory: Ambitions of Colonialism and Methods of
Subjugation
Yermak the conquistador
Stewardship and extraction
A natural resource irony of history
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The Lock on the Door: The Priority of Security
The collapse of monarchy in the West
Success in the East
Control as the top priority
Security as a threat
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Labourers: Moral Economics and the Art of Survival
The plough, the scythe and the axe
Moral economics
The commune versus the private farmer
Dictatorship of the collective
8 Masters: The Tragedy of Domination
Owners and rulers
‘Let not the nobility be dispossessed of their estates
without due process of law’
The birth of free people
Traduced and sacred law
The attempt to share
9 Architecture, Happiness and Order
The project we live in
Stalin’s orders
Khrushchev’s social revolution
Happiness and order
Russian order
10 The Halfway House
Favour from the tsar
Property without the market
A market without property
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