[lbo-talk] The State and Capitalism

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Mar 12 14:15:51 PDT 2008


Some of the slaves were probably captured from societies that didn't have a slave mode of production, so some of the slaves probably "theorized" escaping from slavery and returning to a non-slave society. There may not have been many who sought to overthrow and revolutionize Greek or Roman slave mode societies themselves.

As to "ancient" , I'm not sure that Egypt's "slaves" were slaves in the sense of Rome or Greece.


>>> Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> 03/12/2008 4:20 PM >>>

Actually in the ancient world I kind of doubt it. Not that I am an expert on ancient history or anything, but the only place I know of where doubt as to the rightness of slavery is even mentioned is in Aristotle's politics and some of the early Stoics, and these were the kind of people who had burning debates over whether or not motion is real.

--- Jenny Brown <jbrown72073 at cs.com> wrote:


>
> I bet you there were quite a few slaves theorizing
> it right along, too.
> Not a world filled with automata but a world without
> masters.
>

Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.

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