----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Thank you, Anthony Waterman for your helpful note. Let add a few words of clarification. To begin with, Marx and Engels wrote virtually nothing and about the Game Laws. The sources that I used in said that the hunters did trample crops, causing considerable damage. Even defenders of the practice, such as Anthony Trollope said that the farmers did not mind losing some of their crops. Anthony W. mentioned that protection of game allowed pheasants to consume a great deal of their crops. In addition, the killing of the foxes allowed rodents to multiply creating another source of loss. Marx did write about the deer parks in England had regarded them has largely ornamental. He did so to compare the land taken out of production for deer parks with the land accumulated by enclosures. He claimed that the two virtually canceled each other out in. Michael Perelman ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]