On The Soil They Cultivate

Karl Marx | The Enclosure Of Work | Factoids

The last great process of expropriation of the agricultural population from the soil is, finally, the so-called ‘clearing of estates’, i.e., the sweeping of human beings off them. All the English methods hitherto considered culminated in ‘clearing’. As we saw in the description of modern conditions given in a previous chapter, when there are no more ind…