Wage slaves are not kept shackled in a barn or branded and sold at
auction like farm animals, are they?
-raghu.
Of course not. That's why Marx supported Lincoln. In 2008 Marxists
would support a presidential candidate who took strong stands against
wage slavery, a system that may not sell people at auctions but
results in the deaths of millions of children each year. Diarrhea
alone leads to the death of 2.5 million deaths each year. This is a
system that is far more murderous than chattel slavery in numbers.
The reason people are shocked to hear capitalism (and capitalist
politicians) compared to the plantation system is explained fully by
Gramsci. I have no patience to repeat his analysis.
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