>>CB: I think it was use of force and violence externally that made
>>primitive accumulation on a global scale possible. Would have been
>>difficult to accumulate globally by only doing things internal to
>>Europe.
>
>Enclosure + chattel slavery = primitive accumulation = the origin of
>capitalism. The rise & development of the dominance of instrumental
>reason (the Benthamite part of "Freedom, Equality, Property, &
>Bentham") are an effect, not the cause, of the capitalist ensemble
>of social relations.
But why enclosure? Why travel abroad and steal people? Why did it occur to people to enclose common land for the first time? Why didn't they think of it before?
Doug