[lbo-talk] The Dysfunctionality of Slavery and Neoliberalism

[Arthur Maisel]

Michael Smith has a point. But that the trope was ready-to-hand doesn't
preclude its application to a situation in which some of those thus labled
literally were slaves. To ignore that the language preceded the situation
is anachronistic; to notice that it might have been evoked because of the
facts isn't.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 7:14 pm, michael perelman wrote:
>
> > "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight,
> or
> > the gloom of the grave."
>
> I think we may be indulging in a bit of anachronistic reading here.
> "Hirelings" and "slaves" were standard metaphorical tropes of Country
> Party propaganda against the Court Party in England in the 18th century.
> And of course it was Country Party ideology that supplied the American
> revolution (such as it was) with its intellectual arsenal (such as it
> was).
>
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