[lbo-talk] IRA & ETA?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Mar 26 10:12:00 PST 2004
<snip>
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Lacny wrote:
>
>>Ireland, as we all know, was "the world's first colony."
>
>Do you mean maybe the first British colony?  Even dating that from 
>800 years ago, there were colonies millennia before that.
>
>And if you want to call Ireland a colony from the moment of its 
>invasion, then 200 years before, in 1066, Britain was a colony of 
>France.  And before that of the Danes, and before that of the 
>Saxons, and before that of the Romans, and before that -- of the 
>Celts.

I think that it is safe to say that Ireland became the world's first 
colony for thoroughgoing primitive accumulation (= expropriation of 
the agricultural population from the land): 
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5f> & 
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch27.htm>.
-- 
Yoshie

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