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To: arun gera who wrote (25000)	11/10/2007 1:30:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217764

Arun, capitalism is freedom and freedom does NOT include slavery. To discuss capitalism in the context of slavery is misusing words. If it's not free individuals making voluntary decisions about their trading relationships with others, it is NOT capitalism, it's barbarism. dictionary.reference.com If they are not free markets, it is not capitalism. Free means self-determined with property [which of course includes oneself as the most fundamental property to own] privately owned by individuals rather than tribes and dominance hierarchies [which of course is what governments are]. There's a common misunderstanding that slavery was a European institution when it was anything but. Check out Barbary Coast and Slaves in Google. Slavery, cannibalism and all sorts of barbarisms were very widespread human experiences. There's a common idea that Europeans raided Africa and enslaved people whereas in fact African slaves were sold down the river to Europeans as that was a good transaction for the African slave owners. There are of course mixed situations, such as NZ, where there is serfdom, capitalism and slavery in greater or lesser amounts at various times. It is in my lifetime that there was slavery in the form of government nabbing young males and press-ganging them into servitude against their will to attack other people. Serfdom is the dominant system at present, with people being state-owned serfs who can only escape service to the state if they can find a country to escape to which will have them. Mqurice