"originary accumulation is not something that takes place in the distant past, but is a permanent condition that is imposed on the periphery...
[OA] must be understood as a violent reorganization of social reproduction, not merely as the expropriation of land and the coercive mobilization of labor for commodity production. Colonial capitalism systematically dismantled subsistence economies, communal land use, and kinship-based systems of care..."
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https://monthlyreview.org/articles/could-capitalism-have-thrived-without-colonialism/