do any of you know any good texts and analyses of the Enclosure Acts being forced through in 18th century England? Just as with slavery in Antiquity, this is an ambiguous phenomenon, I think. On the one hand the land reforms were necessary to develop the productive forces, on the other hands thousands of ordinary peasants drowned away as a result of the change in agricutural techniques. Perhaps this is an interesting topic to discuss as well.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
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