Mark's point in that section is to say there's the accumulation of capital happens in two different ways.

One way is built into capitalism. It's the capitalist getting as much profit as he can and plowing it back into the business.

That's capitalist accumulation.

But capital also has to accumulate in a sense before we have capitalism to kind of get the ball rolling to get cat.

You have to have on the one hand a bunch of people who have some wealth in their hands and another bunch of people who have nothing.

Because then a deal will be struck. Those who have nothing are in danger of dying because they have nothing.

Those who have a lot say to themselves, wait a minute, I have a lot.

But maybe I can get the one who's scared to die to work for me, producing a profit for me.

That way he survives, because I pay him wages, and my wealth goes up, which is what I want.

How did you get things set up that way?

How did you have a situation where a large number of people were desperate at no way to turn and a relatively small number of people had a big pot of money in their hands with which to hire them.

The enclosure of the comments?

The process of that happening before capitalism is called primitive commemulation.

And the example Mark's gives is England in the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries where you had peasantry, the famous English-Yoman peasant who survived partly out of their little land and their animals, but partly out of the very crucial commons.

The ability of every peasant in an area to graze his or her cattle on the common meadows, to go into the common forest for hunting, for getting wood.

There were these shared resources.

And at a certain point the landlord class took them.

Took the meadows, took the woods, shut them, literally fenced them, called the enclosure movement because they wrapped them literally and closed the formerly common areas, denied the peasant couldn't survive because they needed that land to graze, they needed that wood, they needed the hunting.

And the peasants then leave the countryside because they're dying there, they can't survive, and go into the cities.

When they arrive in the cities, they have nothing.

And they meet people who have become quite wealthy by enclosing the commons and producing stuff there.

And then the new deal is struck. It isn't to surf an allured because in the sense the surfs have run away.

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