And it does a very important thing too, and this is important for the rest of the discussion here.

It's for the first time in human history it separates political power

from economic power and this is crucial to understanding the beginning of this country because if we go

back to the colonial period as you mentioned it was

free real estate right all you had to do was simply dispossessed the the first

peoples that lived on the eastern seaboard.

Move there with your family, start some weird Puritan community out there.

And that means of subsistence that had been eroded in England, you know, right before you left.

That means of subsistence, the ability to reproduce and self-reproduce yourself as a small farmer,

as an independent farmer outside of the cash nexus, outside of the market.

All of a sudden as that possibility forecloses itself in England and then later on of course in the rest of Europe too and

then around the world people could still come to the United States.

Colonists could come to the United States and through the simple act of

dispossessing and maybe killing some native peoples.

They could get it back, baby.

They could have that means of subsistence back.

Northern farmers, they got it, man.

Yeah, they got it.

They've created a model that became the only presiding the metaphysical like the quality of freedom was defined in that and that is a distinction from European freedom.

European freedom has an inexorable communal element to it

because it arose out of feudal relationships which were communal.

America is where the people who couldn't or wouldn't be able to fit into the communal

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