Vol. I, Ch. 26
Critique of the bourgeois 'nursery tale' of primitive accumulation as analogous to original sin in theology.
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From Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx
Capital did not arise through frugal saving but through violent expropriation of peasants from the land, colonial plunder, and slavery; this is the historical, not idyllic, origin of the capital-labor relation.
Vol. I, Ch. 27
Expropriation of the agricultural population from the land via enclosures in England.
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On the colonial system: 'Capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.'
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