[lbo-talk] The State and Capitalism

[Chris Doss]

Like I said, we really don't know what they thought.
Maybe it was "oh my hard fate -- what did I do to so
anger the gods?" Maybe it was "darn, I wish my king
had put up a better fight in the war; then these damn
Romans would be toiling in our mines!" Maybe it was
"slavery is an oppressive institution and should be
abolished!" Who knows?

But anyway I don't see any evidence that the
institution of slavery was ever a serious matter of
contention, unlike say it was in Europe and the US
during circa 1800. "The ruling ideas of every era are
the ideas of the ruling class" does not mean that
people who weren't in the ruling class thought like
early 21st-century people. :)

--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> There's slaves and then there's slaves.  Epictetus
> was a slave in a 
> rich household, no?  Slaves working in mines didn't
> write much.  And 
> are there really enough examples to constitute a
> lot? 
> 
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