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[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 113 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For more information, research "surplus army of labor", "primitive accumulation", and "accumulation by dispossession".

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Primitive accumulation is a bad term. It works if you've read the theory behind it, but otherwise it sounds like someone saving up a bunch of money then starting a successful business compared to what it is which was colonial genocide, enclosure of the commons, and mass starvation as people were ripped from agricultural labor and cast into the factories and mines to work for feudal lords turned industrial capitalists.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree but in this context I'm literally telling them to read about it.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was just summarizing for the people who are too lazy to go read anything and will just stop here