Abolish Slavery, Abolish Property, Abolish Capitalism

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Mon, 04/27/2015 - 12:00am
Commentary on the abolition of slavery and by extension the incomplete abolition of property.

Drawing from Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (available as a book or ebook at the Multnomah County Library), Clayton Morgareidge argues that the Civil War and the 14th Amendment abolishing slavery constituted the second, and more radical, revolution than the one in the 1770s. There is a lesson here about the prospects for a new revolution that would put an end to the private ownership of capital.

You can read this piece HERE.

Picture Credit: Penn State University

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