Noam Chomsky: Wage Slavery is Chattle Slavery

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Noam Chomsky explains why wage slavery is analogous to Chattle Slavery.

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  • In addition to the presidential seal, you should have put some corporate logos up as well, because they are the power behind the presidency, as well as, the power that most of us directly serve each day as soon as we show up for work.

  • Power is never legitimate - taking a society's freedom is never legitimate - there can be no power in a free society because to have power over a person you must remove their freedom.

    It is not natural human instinct to be ruled or governed - it is human will to be free but we must be made stupid to think that we are free under rule and our will oppressed - it is times of

    revolution and awakening of intelligence (A)

  • Nobody would choose to be a slave - having your own business is just owning a job.

    Your right - in this system of slavery there is no escape from being a slave thats why those who want to be free are bringing it down.

    You are by definition a slave if you dont have your freedom - do you want to be free or do you

    want to live under rule ?

  • Nietzsche: "Any man who does not have more than two-thirds of this day to himself is a slave,."

  • @godkingofthepunks Not everyone has a choice to "do what you want to do or be a slave".............e.g....do the vast majority of citizens have X tens of thousands of dollars to start their own business or secure a loan for such? Even as a capitalist, you still exploit others' labour and are thus part of the system..`wage slavery' is hence inescapable in our current society. even if you are the one who has power.

  • He never actually answered the question, "under what circumstances is power legitimate."

  • Would you like to be free or do want to be sold for Labour ? Money is slavery - you are forced to surrender your will and work for money instead - once you can get people to abandon their own free will and work for money who ever controls the money supply controls you - money is the currency of the slave trade - slave dealing is the buying and selling of human labour - do you want to do what you want or do you want to be a slave ? (A)

  • Everybody else, how is this for a slice of real life? Instead of empty theoretical whining about wage labor.

  • @buzzin1975, I must say, though, that I'd love for Noam Chomsky himself to hear what you have called him.

    For all his ass-licking of Hezbollah and Hamas and who knows who else, for all his genuflections to the "Palestinian cause," for all the damage that he has been doing to Jews, this Jew-hating Jew still remains just a "retarded Jew" to those whose asses he kisses. I'd love to see the expression on his face when he is informed of that.

    As for me, you chose the wrong target, baby.

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