The corporatization and privatization of hitherto public assets (such as universities), to say nothing of the wave of privatization (of water and public utilities of all kinds) that has swept the world indicate a new wave of ‘enclosing the commons.’ As in the past, the power of the state is frequently used to force such processes through even against popular will.
David Harvey, The New Imperialism, p. 148
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