from Potosi Principle

here

"...To flesh out these parallels between past and present, we draw on Marx's concept of primitive accumulation—a global principle of value-creation and exploitation, but also of resistance, that, we claim, has been operative across time and territory. Then as now, primitive accumulation is accompanied by a globalized art business that purports to act as a guarantor and messenger of positive values—Christianity in the past; human rights in present-day Dubai or Beijing— but instead furthers economic agendas..."