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inverted totalitarianism: the product of corporate capitalism and government in america
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1511108" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Republicans are said to have opposed slavery in the days of Lincoln and that opposition was towards a single form of slavery. In fact at the time, slavery in the form of owning another human being as property was in absolute collapse across the entire western civilization (it was dying on it's own) and the sad irony is that all those nations except our own avoided war in achieving those ends.</p><p></p><p>Now to take an opposition to human ownership as property and then equate that to an opposition to wage slavery is IMO a false conclusion. I understand the "wage slavery is slavery" argument and it may have some moral merit but I think you error in projecting this on republicans and then making an argument that republicans wanted worker co-ops and self owned businesses. History IMO sez otherwise and Chomsky is pretty smart on history and I doubt he made that leap either. Or if he has I've yet to see it and I'm sympathetic to some of Chomsky's and Hedges POV and work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1511108, member: 2189"] Republicans are said to have opposed slavery in the days of Lincoln and that opposition was towards a single form of slavery. In fact at the time, slavery in the form of owning another human being as property was in absolute collapse across the entire western civilization (it was dying on it's own) and the sad irony is that all those nations except our own avoided war in achieving those ends. Now to take an opposition to human ownership as property and then equate that to an opposition to wage slavery is IMO a false conclusion. I understand the "wage slavery is slavery" argument and it may have some moral merit but I think you error in projecting this on republicans and then making an argument that republicans wanted worker co-ops and self owned businesses. History IMO sez otherwise and Chomsky is pretty smart on history and I doubt he made that leap either. Or if he has I've yet to see it and I'm sympathetic to some of Chomsky's and Hedges POV and work. [/QUOTE]
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