British capital. Colonial plunder—its vast colonies provided it with raw materials and precious metals, right? It could also... Were capitalist powers basically all foreign? Did they need to cultivate their internal strength? What could make their capital more substantial? For example, we have types one and two here. There was a great, glorious, and correct movement called enclosure. At first, land was enclosed to raise sheep, a man-eating movement. They said sheep's hooves could dig up gold. At the time, Britain's wool textile industry—also called agriculture—was developing rapidly, so it needed large amounts of wool as raw material, right?
So they began enclosing their own land and driving away the peasants. What did this provide for the development of British capitalism? Laborers: bankrupt peasants driven off the land, forced to wander from place to place. And the British Parliament passed a law with a basic principle. The first time, you stayed in the city and got swept up here. The second time, right? The third time—put another way, you only had three chances to deal with the authorities, and then...
That was how they forced those who could no longer live in the countryside to become a large number of free... There was this, right? Fine, there was labor. The money from selling wool could provide... Students, all the small peasants were driven off the land and became workers in manufacturing workshops. Did your way of life change?
The old peasants' way of life was self-sufficient, right? Workshop owners invested money, workers provided labor; they invested money to buy the workers' labor and concentrated that labor. What did you get in your hands? Could you eat it or drink it? Where would you find food and clothing? The exchange market, right? So in fact, this change—the British enclosure movement—unexpectedly met