• @aidan
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    -53 hours ago

    Capitalism and slavery are incompatible.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 hours ago

      Why not? Capitalism is private control over the factors of production - it’s not “equal freedom” or anything like that. The American South was capitalist during chattel slavery.

      And that’s not even getting into wage slavery.

      • @aidan
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        -22 hours ago

        Capitalism is private control over the factors of production

        If someone is legally exercising force over someone else, they are a de facto entity of the state.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 hours ago

          Are you just making up phrases at this point? Show us where in the definition of capitalism that human rights exist.

          • @aidan
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            02 hours ago

            From DuckDuckGo:

            1. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development occurs through the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
            1. An economic system based on predominantly private (individual or corporate) investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and wealth; contrasted with socialism or especially communism, in which the state has the predominant role in the economy.
            1. A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
            1. A socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately-owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
            1. A specific variation or implementation of either such socio-economic system.
            1. An economic system based on private ownership of capital.

            This isn’t necessary for all of them, but from Wikipedia:

            A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.

            Slave masters are regulators of population, so they are an actor of the state.