On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> Assuming we want to be Marxist about this, isn't part of the
> definition of capitalism that it uses wage labor, and so slave-based
> economies are noncapitalist by definition?
Slavery isn't really a capitalist form of labor domination, but the slave system of the South was embedded in a larger capitalist economy - they sold the cotton through New York merchants to English industrialists.
Doug