people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism
«One of the wildest sects of Communists in France proposes not only to hold all property in common, but to divide the profits not according to each mans in-put and labor but according to each mans wants. Now this is precisely the system of domestic slavery with us. We provide for each slave, in old age and in infancy, in sickness and in health, not according to his labor, but according to his wants. The masters wants are most costly and refined, and he therefore gets a larger share of the profits. A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slave consumes more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail, he is always sure of a support; he is only transferred to another master to participate in the profits of another concern…»
people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism
@Satsuma “slavery is bad because it’s not exploitative enough”??!
people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism
@Lady no they think slavery and communism are both good
people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism
@Lady this is part of a larger passage in which they explain a long list of reasons why slavery is super ok and should continue being legal, the rest of which were your more standard historical bullshit so I was extremely not expecting “its basically communism and we all know thats the hot new thing” to be wedged in there in the middle
