Slavery and Wage Slavery

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

William Harper, 19th century leading pro-Slavery apologist/"theoretician"
arguing that unless abolitionists were also anticapitalist, they were
hypocrites:

"What, is the essential character of Slavery, and in what does it differ
from the servitude of other countries?...Where a man is compelled to labor
at the will of another, and to give him the greater portion of the product
of his labor, there Slavery exists; and it is immaterial by what sort of
compulsion the will of the laborer is subdued...What difference does it
make, if you can starve him, or alarm him for the subsistence of himself or
his family? And is it not under this compulsion that the 'freeman' labors?
Is not the condition of the laboring poor...too often that of masterless
slaves?...[noting that calling laborers undr a capitalist system free merely
adds to their misery] [laborers] feel indignity more acutely, and more of
discontent and evil passion is excited; they feel that it is mockery that
calls them free."
(Quoted in "The Culture of Make Believe" by Derrick Jensen, Context Books,
N.Y. 2002, p 87)

James Craven
(Blackfoot Name: "Omahkohkiaayo-i'poyi-inaa")
Professor/Consultant Economics; Division (Business) Chairman;
Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
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