"s.artesian" wrote: > > > The passions are products of market dependence, with the markets > themselves transformed from simply arenas of consumption to the > circuits essential for the realizaton and reproduction of exchange > value. > > The "industrious" "innovative" "efficient" yeoman, land leaser, merchant > is driven to be industrious, innovative, efficient, not to mention greedy, > fearful, suspicious, dishonest, malevolent, spiteful, and of course, a > political economist, by the inability to provide for his/her own needs > through simple direct production and consumption. And that was a > product of dispossession of the direct producers.
Probably first caught up by the Drunken Porter's Hellgate scene in Macbeth when he greets a farmer who killed himself in the expectation of plenty. Carrol
