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minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·7 hours 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-up4·6 hours agoDoesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-25 hours agoNot by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoNo, that could be feudalism or lots of things
minus-squareNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoNot 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.
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.