Re: the role of forced labor

["juanita shever" <jshever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, from this post do we conclude that "forced labor" has been abolished as
a component of the capitalist mode of production?  Juanita.


>From: Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: the role of forced labor
>Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:30:14 -0500
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> >  >Wage labor has expanded as capitalism developed.  Chattel slavery,
> > while >expanding in the period of the mercantile system, got abolished
> > with the >development of industrial capitalism & the doctrine of
> > laissez faire (see Eric >Williams, _Capitalism and Slavery_).
>
>This is not true. I don't know what Williams thinks about it though, but
>in the 18th century slaves were still the charectertic of labor force in
>Caribbean Islands when the doctrine of laissez faire was already
>developing. Slavery *coexisted* with industrial capitalism for sometime
>because it was *integral* to British industrial growth, not antagonistic
>to it. Agrarian "plantation capitalism" and  "industrial capitalism"
>were not two different social systems. They were rather two phases of
>capitalism. The same applies to US (northern industrialists versus
>agrarian capitalists, not liberalizing bourgeosie versus feudal elite)
>
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