tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post4609645039351640042..comments2024-03-29T18:17:34.956+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: Humpty Dumpty analysisLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-12708240518473134732011-04-28T19:07:36.847+10:002011-04-28T19:07:36.847+10:00The Soviet regime managed to revive both slavery (...The Soviet regime managed to revive both slavery (in its labour camps) and serfdom (in its banning anybody leaving a workplace without its permission).Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-55647942451982238872011-04-21T16:20:45.371+10:002011-04-21T16:20:45.371+10:00Capitalism does not, however, get the same treatme...<i>Capitalism does not, however, get the same treatment. On the contrary, everything that might be adduced against capitalism counts – even if it is something as ubiquitous in human history as imperialism. So, you are allowed to exclude any inconvenient fact about the history of Marxism, but no inconvenient fact about, or even vaguely tied to, the history of capitalism.</i><br /><br />For instance, that it was liberal democratic capitalist societies who abolished -- for the first time ever in human history -- slavery. We take this for granted now as a hallmark of "civilization," but looking at history as a whole, it's more accurate to say that the <i>institution</i> of slavery is a hallmark of "civilization," its abolition a hallmark of (classical) liberalism. And note how the institution revives when a society attempts to get away from classical liberalism -- often as slavery of the most brutal and lethal kind.Jordan179https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175992431854812417noreply@blogger.com