Full Idea
Common ownership in early societies is not the denial of a man's private property in the products of his own labour, but the only way under the circumstances of securing it.
Gist of Idea
Original common ownership is securing private property, not denying it
Source
report of T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882], §218) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State III
Book Reference
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.77
A Reaction
This is announced with some confidence, but it is very speculative. I think there is some truth in Locke's thought that putting work into a creation creates natural ownership. But who owns the raw materials? Why is work valued highly?