* From: sartesian In so doing, Brenner is attempting to locate, and ground specifically, Marx's birthmark of capitalism --"separation of the means of production from the means of labor"-- in the relations of agricutural production and producers.
^^^^^ CB; This is only one part of Marx's birthmark of capitalism. Marx's whole on this is in the Section on the socalled primitive accumulation, and it clearly includes the activities in the colonies as equally part of the birthmark of capitalism with the new relations of productin in the English countryside. Furthermore, slaves labor is alienaed from the means of production just as much as agricultural wage-laborers. So, there was "separation of the means of production from the means of labor" in the colonies as much as in the English countryside.
