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minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down9·3 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-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoIs that really the hair you want to split?
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoDoesn’t living in luxury while building wealth on the labor of others count as capitalism?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoNot by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days agoNo, that could be feudalism or lots of things
minus-squareNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days 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.