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minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down8·1 个月前Were the Virginia planters keeping sex slaves capitalists though? Most of the capitalists at the time were up north where slavery was illegal by the founding.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 个月前Is that really the hair you want to split?
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 个月前Doesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 个月前Not by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 个月前No, that could be feudalism or lots of things
minus-squareNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 个月前Not if you’re applying situational context. The American slave trade was intended for entirely capitalistic and sadistic means.
Were the Virginia planters keeping sex slaves capitalists though? Most of the capitalists at the time were up north where slavery was illegal by the founding.
Is that really the hair you want to split?
Doesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
Not by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
No, that could be feudalism or lots of things
Not if you’re applying situational context. The American slave trade was intended for entirely capitalistic and sadistic means.