![]() ![]() ![]() Peel from the Peel region, which is now home to the WAFL team Peel Thunder. It might be to realise that he is talking about Unhappy Mr. What are we though, on this boodja, in this city, to make of a place that was once known as the ‘Swan River Colony’? Marx is writing about us, so what can we say back to him? Marx goes on to talk about how capital becomes capital, about colonial relations, about public rather than private property, about American settlement, about labour markets, and about the political economy of the Old World before concluding book one of Capital with a remark on expropriation. Peel who provided for everything except the export of English modes of production to Swan River! Peel was left without a servant to make his bed or fetch him water from the river.” Unhappy Mr. Peel had the foresight to bring with him, besides, 300 persons of the working class, men, women, and children. Peel, he moans, took with him from England to Swan River, West Australia, means of subsistence and of production to the amount of £50,000. He discovered that capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, established by the instrumentality of things. Karl Marx writes in Chapter 33 of Capital Iabout the Swan River Colony:įirst of all, Wakefield discovered that in the Colonies, property in money, means of subsistence, machines, and other means of production, does not as yet stamp a man as a capitalist if there be wanting the correlative – the wage-worker, the other man who is compelled to sell himself of his own free will. ![]()
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