Cockburn on slavery

[James Farmelant]

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From: James Blaut <70671.2032 at compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:marxism at lists.panix.com" <marxism at lists.panix.com>
Subject: Re: Cockburn on slavery
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:38:04 -0500
Message-ID: <199811140040_MC2-6032-5BFB at compuserve.com>

A couple of fallacies in James F's contrast of slave capitalism with
regular ordinary capitalism. 

First: we are talking about different centuries. Slavery ended in British
territories in the 1830s; how much modern, industrial "free" capitalism
do
you find before that date? Not much. Apples and oranges.

Second, during the high period of the slave-based sugar plantations, it
seems that the largest and most mechanized factories IN THE WORLD were
the
sugar mills (which, by the way, also used a lot of non-slave labor).

Third, why must surplus value be realized in the same place it is
generated?

En lucha

Jim B  

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