An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

As Wakefield told it, Mr. Peel sailed to Swan River in Western Australia with £50,000 in supplies and 300 working people. Land was there for the taking, and the workers left to farm their own. Soon nobody was there to make his bed or fetch his water.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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