“I mean, the enclosures in Britain would never have happened without the king’s army and without state brutality for pushing peasants off their ancestors’ land and creating the commodification of labor, the commodification of land which then gave rise to capitalism.”

—  Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky discussion the New York Public Library (26 April 2016)

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