Re: Slaves and their instruments - was/ poor underpaid CEOs
On Dec 14, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
But since I read this passage carefully I have read a lot about slavery in Rome during the time of the Repubic and empire and I have to say it does not match what I have read.
I know very little about this history of slavery, but doesn’t it
matter what kind of larger system slavery is embedded in? While
slavery in the US south provided important cotton feedstocks to the
mills of Manchester, I’m guessing that it was not something that
could survive forever in an industrializing capitalist economy. In
other systems, productivity and growth are not the central aims of
economic activity as they are under capitalism.
It’s always cheap to make a joke about a typo, but “Re:pubic” looks
like the title of a self-referential cult stud essay on the sex biz.