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minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down9·2 days agoWere 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-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoDoesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoNo, that could be feudalism or lots of things
minus-squareNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoNot if you’re applying situational context. The American slave trade was intended for entirely capitalistic and sadistic means.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoNot by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoIs that really the hair you want to split?
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.
Doesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
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.
Not by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
Is that really the hair you want to split?