Part of our recent Summer School was about the effects of the English Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries – not just the effects on Roman Catholics, who now entered into a period of savage repression and iconoclasm, but the effects on the economy and society of England as a whole. The destruction of much of the fabric of civil society, on which the working classes and the poor depended, created a new kind of poverty and a new society, simultaneously laying the foundations of modern international finance and the wages system. A useful summary of all this can be read in a recent issue of
The Social Crediter (read Parts 3 and 3).
There is a good (three part) article on this subject by Christopher A. Ferrara at The Distributist Review.
ReplyDeletehttp://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/07/the-austrian-version-of-the-english-enclosures/
http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/08/the-austrian-version-of-the-english-enclosures-part-ii/
http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/08/the-austrian-version-of-the-english-enclosures-iii/
I should add a little correction.
DeleteThese articles are more of a critique of those who defend the enclosures of that period. They do however, point out aspects of the devastating impact they had in response to those who are defending them.
Thanks for this.
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