CROMWELL’S OCCUPATION OF IRELAND AS JUDGED FROM PETTY’S OBSERVATIONS AND MARX’S THEORY OF COLONIALISM

Approximately two hundred years later, Volume I of Capital was published (1906). Here Marx presented a theory of colonialism that rests on the principle of primitive accumulation (the separating of individuals from the means of production with which they can carry on economic activity) and links primitive accumulation to brutality and religious factionalism, the supply of labor and creation of markets, and public debt and taxation issues.3