ABSTRACT
The Midnight Notes Collective (MNC) writes in 'The New Enclosures' that every struggle against enclosure and for the commons inevitably becomes a call for jubilee. Jubilee reflects part of the radical, egalitarian and revolutionary elements of Hebrew society. By placing the ideas of enclosure and commons at the centre of their understanding of capitalism and struggle, the MNC develop a challenging rethinking of communist politics. A politics of the commons identifies the power that the pre- and non- capitalist social relationships have to both provide a space for resistance and the substance for creating communism. Communism is not to be put off till a later date but rather is to be constructed today from and in this outside to capitalism, in the hope that such efforts will be able to subvert capital on a whole. In the work of the MNC there is a general faith that struggle in itself will create communism.
