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After reading Purchasing Power and browsing through the Disposable People website, I, like the majority of my classmates, was astounded by the current number of slaves used in today’s production. The fact that the world’s commerce uses a total of 27 million slaves is absolutely disgusting. While this number leaves me in shock, it sadly can be understood (not to be confused with rationalized or justified) with a social, political, and economic understanding of capitalism. I admit, I do not have this thorough understanding, but it is nonetheless helpful to outline some of the larger transition points in history that have brought our economy to where it is now. After all, it is impossible to understand modern day slavery apart from capitalism. It simply does not exist. Capitalism is inherent in the transformation of slavery. Similarly, you cannot understand Capitalism apart from Industrialism and Industrialism apart from Feudalism. The history of these economic systems is crucial to our understanding of the systems that enable modern day slavery. « Blog Post Ni: FTRN Booklet & Arithmetic of PassionWeek 2: FT (John Treseler) » More blog posts in this category Common |
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