Jim D.
Here is your use of the terminology "absolutely necessary" and "need". In this same
sense, literal slavery has been historically necessary to capitalism as was the
inclosure actions and doubly "free" ( actually free and relieved of the land as a
natural laboratory).
Charles
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Charles wrote:
Marx specifically talks about capital, not "the capitalist system". He
says nothing that would contradict the fact that capital or
wage-labor/capital is combined in a system with slave bondage. The
capitalists need only some doubly free ; and some free of means of
production,
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I didn't say that capitalism didn't play a crucial role at the early
stages. It's unclear -- without a lot of counter-historical speculation --
whether or not slavery was "necessary."
CB: The same is true of what happened in England. There
I wrote:
I didn't say that capitalism didn't play a crucial role at the early
stages. It's unclear -- without a lot of counter-historical speculation --
whether or not slavery was "necessary."
Charles writes:
CB: The same is true of what happened in England. There would have to be a
Jim: I don't discount enslaved labor, though I don't see why it needs to be
capitalized.
For the same reason that, while there may have been many holocausts, most of the
world uses the Holocaust to speak about one in particular.
