Traditionally, Marxists talk a lot about the Inclosure Acts, but they don't talk about the witch trials, and they also don't talk much about colonialism.
I was actually just working on a script yesterday, where I was talking about colonialism and the Inclosure Acts, which is this historical process in British history.
And it’s because of all that food - even in a small enclosure, a well-fed female can give birth to more than a dozen cubs a year, several times more than her wild relatives.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves.