Human life is less than a sheep, how cruel is the British enclosure movement?

In order to raise sheep, the British landlords forcibly occupied the land, displaced the peasants, and if they resisted, they would be beaten until they were killed, and they also forced the peasants to do cheap labor.

In this "land enclosure movement", many peasants were executed, and those who survived became cheap labor in society. In order to survive, many peasant families had to send their children to be apprentices and do hard labor.

Because the enclosure movement took place in the 15th and 16th centuries, the wool industry in England was prevalent, and the demand for wool was very large, so raising sheep became an act of profit, and raising sheep did not need to be the same as farming, which required a large number of farmers, so at that time human life was really not as good as a sheep.

The British enclosure movement drove out all the peasants on the land, and let them earn money by working for a very low wage, and if the workers were **, the compensation was not as good as a sheep.

If anyone dares to disobey the order, they will be severely beaten, maimed, or even killed by the landlord. All of a sudden, there was a lot of grief.

Britain was originally a traditional sheep breeding country, but because at this time, Britain also needed to meet the needs of foreign wool. Therefore, compared to agriculture, sheep farming is much more profitable. At this time, some wealthy aristocrats valued the high profits and began to invest in sheep farming.

It is well known that raising sheep requires large tracts of land. As a result, some high-ranking officials and nobles drove out the peasants who had rented their land, so that they could occupy the land where sheep could be raised. Farmers who have been evicted from their homes have become homeless vagrants.

This is the cannibalism movement of the sheepfold people.

More than half of the land in England was turned into pasture, and in the development of the enclosure movement, although the British king imposed a certain degree of restrictions, the effect was quite small, but the enclosure became more and more legalized. In order to settle the expelled peasants, the King of England issued a restriction on land enclosures as well as restrictions on vagrants, with the aim of allowing those peasants who had been evicted from their homes to accept low-wage jobs. Wanderers who were able to work were severely punished if they did not find work within the allotted time, and as a rule, those who were homeless were whipped and sent back to their places of origin if they were caught.

If he is found wandering again, half of his ears are to be cut off. The third time he was found to be wandering, he was sentenced to death. Later, it was stipulated that anyone who wandered for a month and did not find a job was to be sold into slavery if he was denounced, and his master could drive him to do any kind of labor at will.

If such a slave escapes, he will be sentenced to life slavery if he is caught. The third escape: to be sentenced to death.

Anyone has the right to apprentice the children of vagrants to hard labor.

At that time, the wool was very expensive, so the officials and nobles drove away the farmers who originally farmed the land, and then used it to raise sheep.

Disagree.

1. The land is privately owned, and the peasants originally rented the land, and the land property owners can recover or lease the land to the peasants.

2. Farmers who lost their land could choose to engage in related jobs such as wool weaving, but the culture of the British peasants did not support the capitalist mode of life and production, believing that it was an unseemly thing to engage in handicrafts, so they would rather endure losses than work in factories.

3. We cannot evaluate history by today's standards. Historically, the enclosure movement did not bring much blood, but rather the impetus for the development of Britain, otherwise Britain would not have been able to defeat the Spanish Armada at sea and become the most powerful capitalist country after suffering huge losses.

My point of view is dialectical negation, if from the general background, historical trend, the enclosure movement is an event to promote historical development, because it was in the early stage of capitalism, and the development of capitalism required primitive capital accumulation, and at that time British capital accumulation reached a certain level, the capitalist economy developed, and the economy promoted the development of politics, and with the economic base, the superstructure (political system) had to be changed, so Britain needed to carry out a bourgeois revolution at that time, The land enclosure movement is an important step to promote this change, it can be said that it breeds the new bourgeoisie such as farmers, and hits the feudal forces, because the land enclosure movement is also a kind of land capitalization of the land revolution, and it changes the feudal decentralized management, is land centralization, is conducive to the long-term development of agriculture, and has a profound impact on the capitalist political and economic development of Britain. However, from the peasant's point of view, this is undoubtedly a disaster, because the peasants have lost the land on which they depend, so that their lives are even poorer, and there is indeed a feeling that sheep eat people, in fact, if in the long run this land releases more labor, it is very satisfying to have a large amount of labor needed for the development of capitalist industry and commerce. In conclusion, the enclosure movement was a historical event that was conducive to the development of capitalism under the bloody side of violent means, and it also had a real foundational effect on the process of urbanization in Britain in a sense.

Agree. Raising sheep requires large tracts of land. The aristocrats drove out the peasants who had rented their land, and even demolished their houses and enclosed the land where they could raise sheep.

Farmers who have been evicted from their homes have become homeless vagrants. This is the enclosure movement. Although the enclosure movement promoted the development of the capitalist economy and freed the peasants from the land and provided labor for the development of capitalism, the movement to force the peasants from the land was a violent process that forced the peasants to leave their homes.