Class-13.

There is a class dynamic driving each stage of
the development of the vectoral world in which we
now find ourselves. The pastoralist class disperse
the great mass of peasants who traditionally worked
the land under the thumb of feudal landlords. The
pastoralists supplant the feudal landlords,
releasing the productivity of the land which they
claim as their private property. As new forms of
abstraction make it possible to produce a surplus
from the land with fewer and fewer farmers,
pastoralists turn them off their land, depriving
them of their living. Dispossessed farmers seek
work and a new home in cities. Here farmers become
workers, as capital puts them to work in its
factories. Capital as property gives rise to a
class of capitalists who own the means of
production, and a class of workers, dispossessed of
it -- and by it. Dispossessed farmers become
workers, only to be dispossessed again. Having lost
their land, they lose in turn their culture. Capital
produces in its factories not just the necessities
of existence, but a way of life it expects its
workers to consume. Commodified life dispossess
the worker of the information traditionally passed
on outside the realm of private property as culture,
as the gift of one generation to the next, and
replaces it with information in commodified form.

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