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> ...why do same people never attribute the genocide of American natives, enslavement of Africans and Indians, to capitalism? Because: - Slavery and genocide
by humanrebar 8y ago
> ...why do same people never attribute the genocide of American natives, enslavement of Africans and Indians, to capitalism?
Because:
- Slavery and genocide predate modern market economics. They are not unique to capitalism. It would need to be shown that they are more prevalent (tough, given Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.).
- The slavery and genocide you are probably referencing comes from mercantilism and imperialism, not free market capitalism.
- Slavery, violence, and murder are not features of free markets. Property rights aren't exactly established if people and land can be taken by force without compensation or agreement, not that people are property anyway.
- antocv 8y ago> Slavery, violence, and murder are not features of free markets I beg to differ. Slavery, violence and murder are inherent properties of an unjust relationships which follow from unequal distribution of wealth. If you can show me a society which used property but did not have those effects, feel free to correct this point. But on other hand, I can show you societies which did not have concepts of property, of trade, and did not have slavery and other forms of oppression.
- solveit 8y agoIf you could actually show examples at reasonable scale, I would be very impressed and maybe even go anti-capitalism.