>But a surplus of labor can be _created_ (as it was in England) if
the
>class of smallholders is destroyed and/or prevented from coming
into
>existence on a large scale. The surplus is created -- people are
>thrown off their land and have to live on their own personal
resources
>-- and this provides the key basis for capitalist accumulation.
^^^^^^^
CB: Slaves are not small_holders_. They hold nothing, own nothing. Slaves
are alienated from the land they work on. They do not own small plots. So,
they are primitively accumulated too. What differentiates capitalist slaves
from wage-laborers is not that they not alienated from the land, but that
they are not paid wages.
