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minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down9·2 months 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-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoIs that really the hair you want to split?
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoDoesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoNot by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, that could be feudalism or lots of things
minus-squareNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months 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.
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.