Enclosure continues today, displacing tens of millions in India and elsewhere.

Evidence

In 2020, India witnessed the largest strike in world history, involving 250 million workers, mostly in the agricultural sector, which employs over half of the country’s workforce. Among other things, farmers demanded a halt to the privatization of agricultural land. Land acquisition in India has accelerated in the past thirty-five years: the number of displaced people more than doubled between 1990 and 2004, from slightly under 30 million to 60 million. Of the total land acquired between 1947 and 2004, more than half was forested areas and common property, disproportionately affecting small subsistence farmers. If the global labor force has increased by more than a billion people since 1980, that has in part been through the destruction of alternative means of making a living. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 80