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In what world are capitalism and slavery coexistent, even hypothetically? They're opposites. Capitalism is freedom.
by theseatoms 9y ago
In what world are capitalism and slavery coexistent, even hypothetically? They're opposites. Capitalism is freedom.
- boomboomsubban 9y ago>Capitalism is freedom. *freedom for the property owner. Which is why it can facilitate a slave trade, property is a limitation of freedom.
- jbreckmckye 9y agoYou can have private trade without civil rights and personal freedoms. Was segregation-era America not capitalist?
- theseatoms 9y agoNot if certain people aren't allowed to privately trade.
- jacalata 9y agoAt that point you're just arguing that capitalism has never existed, so perhaps you should use another term for your "true Scotsman" version to reduce confusion when talking to people who use the common definition.
- jbreckmckye 9y agoYou sound like a modern-day Marxist denouncing Leninism as nothing but a "perversion" of socialism.
- marcosdumay 9y agoPrivate trade, yes. Free trade, not so much. There is a reason why slavery was abolished on the brink of capitalism birth. It's because capitalism depends on free trade, not just any kind of it - the freer the better it grows.