Korea took off because it was colonized (Japan/US).
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
> >But why enclosure? Why travel abroad and steal people? Why did it
> >occur to people to enclose common land for the first time? Why didn't
> >they think of it before?
> >
> >Doug
>
> Enclosing land is utterly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
> Spain enclosed land all through the 15th and 16th century but did not "take
> off". I just finished reading Adolfo Gilly's splendid history of the
> Mexican revolution 1910-1920. The original Zapatista movement was sparked
> by enclosures in Morelos, when sugar producing haciendas were created at
> the expense of communal land deeded to Indians in the 17th century. While
> Mexico was enclosing land, Japan at the very same moment was reinforcing
> feudal property relations in the countryside so as to hasten capital
> accumulation for the growth of native manufacturing. Japan took off because
> it was protected from colonialism. England took off because it became
> colonialist. Mexico failed to take off because it was a victim of
> neocolonialism. Period. Case close. Sentence: ten years with time off for
> good behavior.
>
> Louis Proyect
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