Roger: > Now, (here is the point) without > much bigger units of production, that is the enclosure of large parcels of > land, the system could not have been introduced on a cottage scale, > cottagers simply would not have grown their carrots any differently to > grandad. Starvation would have increased especially in the industrial > centres. The Enclosures Acts enabled the country to feed itself as its > population grew. So it was necessary to take people's land away from them because they couldn't be trusted to use it properly themselves? Stalin himself couldn't have put it better. Regards Paul