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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (8267)	3/13/2001 4:57:43 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Slavery is intensely capitalistic. But let's not tell "them" that- it might shatter their rose colored glasses. Slvaery is hardly a free market economy for the slave. Slavery is not truly open capitalism. It is capitalism for the few the slaves normally aren't given the right to participate. I suppose a slave country can be considered capitalist in the same way that an Athens which had slavery and didn't allow slaves to vote or hold office could be considered democratic. But slavery in Athens was not itself a democratic institution and slavery in the US in 1840 was not itself a free market institution. Tim