To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism!

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50. There are free wage laborers in this picture

Probably most of these white dudes.



Certainly the slave drivers, the overseers, alot of them were wage laborers.

I understand the slave trade took place in sort of a pre-capitalist period, the terms are debatable, we shouldn't bog down in terminology.

Mercantilism didn't really break down it just evolved into something slightly different.

Slavery didn't really break down either. The chains were cut, but the system of domination and exploitation continued in a slightly less brutal form.

Slavery by Another Name

"To most Americans, slavery ended with the Empancipation Proclamation. Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor."

This 90-minute documentary challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. As chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, werw coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and the South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.

http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/slavery-by-another-name/

We still have slavery today in prisons, and cops are still policing black people like they were runaway slaves.

Even with non-slave labor I question how free people really are when debts and the need for work keep them begging for jobs and not always feeling so free. The capitalist class continues to benefit enormously from America's racial caste system. The system still uses white privilege to keep the descendants of slaves on the bottom, so there is huge supply of bodies to exploit for profit, either in jobs that pay crap or by locking in prison.