"primitive accumulation" is one big undifferentiated mass? so we can
ignore the different parts of Marx's analysis or treat them all as
playing exactly the same role? the expropriation of English
agriculture producers is the same thing as the looting of the Incas?

I would say that silver mining in Latin America had much more
importance in the early stages of capitalism than anything happening
in the British countryside. I will have more to say on this later on
but the figures for labor productivity on British farms was *lower*
than France's in 1600. That is centuries after the supposed miracle
in the British countryside that was to lead to everything shiny and
new and industrial.

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