In nearly or quite all the other countries of the world, labor is not only robbed and enslaved, but to a great extent paralyzed, by the monopoly of land, and by what may properly be called the utter absence of money.
He describes how labor is paralyzed in many countries due to land monopolies and lack of money.
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