On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 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):
No, I think several of the colonies of Athens came first. Invading and kicking people off the best farmland is not historically new. Nor is making money off agricultural export.
Michael