How America Still Has Slavery
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America’s warlikeness today is no different from Roman warlikeness then, and the purpose is the same. Conquer people to take resources and slaves. In ye olde days Empire conquered foreign lands to physically bring home slaves. These days White Empire (America, Britain, ‘Israel’, same thing) can merely destabilize foreign lands and the slaves bring themselves. They call this mass migration but it doesn’t come from the masses. It comes from western elites having the same demand for exploitable labor as they always did, with the same desire to denigrate it so they don’t have to really pay. Today’s slaves are called prisoners or ‘illegal immigrants’ or just ‘immigrants’ but the phenomenon is — as my historical thesis goes — same shit, different day.
That’s why I read history rather than the news, the present is honestly clearer in the past. I was reading this in Cornell and Matthews Atlas of the Roman World and it sounds like today:
Peasant families were driven out in large numbers by rich investors and were replaced on the land by slave labor. Slaves were in plentiful supply thanks to military victories and the resulting mass enslavement of defeated populations; they could be…
