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The Fundamentals of Marxism: Dialectics, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggle
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The Importance of Primitive Accumulation in Marxism
The emergence of capitalism wasn't about competition or some people working harder than others, it was about violence. It didn't come about through cooperation and voluntary exchange,. It came about through coercion and manipulation in many ways. One of the examples that Marx gets into is this concept of enclosure and bloody legislation. So going out into the woods to collect firewood became illegal because that allowed peasants independence from nature.
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