Re: Forwarded from Jurriaan (Trotsky and imperialism)(Correction)

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CB: Some words were missing from my post's quote below:

 "...First, he must create for the capitalist "capital", with which the latter 
may be
able to exploit more laborers; then he must place, at his own expense, a locum 
tenens
on the labor-market, whom the Government forwards across the sea for the 
benefit of
his old master, the capitalist..."

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Here's the whole paragraph:

"How, then, to heal the anti-capitalistic cancer of the colonies? If men were 
willing,
at a blow, to turn all the soil from public into private property, they would 
destroy
certainly the root of the evil, but also ? the colonies. The trick is how to 
kill two
birds with one stone. Let the Government put upon the virgin soil an artificial 
price,
independent of the law of supply and demand, a price that compels the immigrant 
to
work a long time for wages before he can earn enough money to buy land, and turn
himself into an independent peasant.[20] The fund resulting from the sale of 
land at a
price relatively prohibitory for the wage-workers, this fund of money extorted 
from
the wages of labor by violation of the sacred law of supply and demand, the 
Government
is to employ, on the other hand, in proportion as it grows; to import 
have-nothings
from Europe into the colonies, and thus keep the wage-labor market full for the
capitalists. Under these circumstances, tout sera pour le m!
ieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles. This is the great secret of 
"systematic
colonization". By this plan, Wakefield cries in triumph, "the supply of labor 
must be
constant and regular, because, first, as no laborer would be able to procure 
land
until he had worked for money, all immigrant laborers, working for a time for 
wages
and in combination, would produce capital for the employment of more laborers;
secondly, because every laborer who left off working for wages and became a 
landowner
would, by purchasing land, provide a fund for bringing fresh labor to the 
colony."
[21] The price of the soil imposed by the State must, of course, be a 
"sufficient
price" ? i.e., so high "as to prevent the laborers from becoming independent
landowners until others had followed to take their place." [22] This 
"sufficient price
for the land" is nothing but a euphemistic circumlocution for the ransom which 
the
laborer pays to the capitalist for leave to retire from the wage-labor market !
to the land. First, he must create for the capitalist "capital", w
more laborers; then he must place, at his own expense, a locum tenens on the
labor-market, whom the Government forwards across the sea for the benefit of 
his old
master, the capitalist. "


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