Medieval commerce originated with landless men on society’s margins

Evidence

Elsewhere Pirenne has explained: “[I]t is incontestable that commerce and industry were originally recruited from among landless men, who lived, so to speak, on the margin of a society where land alone was the basis of existence.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1483

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s interest in the material origins of capitalism, foundational to the Black radical tradition’s critique of that system.