If looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks, it IS a DUCK. Chattel slavery is capitalistic by every definition there is.
Yeah, but communism has never truly existed...
The facepalm.
No capitalist advocates for slavery, not one that I can think of.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson are dead now but I thought I would resurrect them just for YOU, dumbass! Can you guess why?
I am not so sure these men deserve the name "capitalist", since I am not aware of them contributing to the ideology of free trade in any intellectual way, which is what I meant. Anyway, I am not that familiar with the old American thinkers anyway, and maybe they wrote the greatest pieces on free trade and it's benefits... Let's just say you are right:
George Washington:
"He owned hundreds of slaves throughout his lifetime, but his views on slavery evolved to support abolition".
- Wiipedia
Jefferson:
"As an older man, he advocated freeing and returning slaves to Africa."
Jefferson's Views on Slavery - Poplar Forest
So there you go.
Free mareketism and lack of coercion just tend to be kind of incompatible with slavery... Unlike the soviet system with its forced labor.
Just because George and Tom changed their opinions about slavery on their death beds doesn't mean St Peter is going to forget their long life advocacy of it! I gave you a valid answer to your question. End of story….
But I can't let you get away with that low information thinking that puts your IQ near the bottom on the left side of the bell curve.
Capitalism by any other name ( free marketism?) began violently and with coercion. Here I come:
The basis for my premise that chattel slavery is a subset of capitalism wasn't something I created in a vacuum. Scholars more erudite than anyone posting here have supported that premise. But after careful consideration I have found that its the other way around. Capitalism is a subset of slavery.:
In his seminal work circa 1914, French socialist Jean Jaurès unearthed the economy of bondage in his four volume
Histoire socialiste de la Révolution française . It was Jaurès who saw the the crucial nexus between slave trade profits and the growth of industries and ideologies of capitalism.
In 1938, C. L. R. James made a similar observation in his monograph, A History of Negro Revolt: "Negro Slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism."
US Historian Sven Beckert continues to validate my premise in his book entitled empire of Cotton: A Global History.
"wealth accumulation marked by African enslavement, the expropriation of aboriginal lands, coercion and killing as means of labor control and territorial conquest, and the rise of an imperial state whose laws and policies served an emergent capitalist class. “We usually think of capitalism, at least the globalized, mass-production type that we recognize today, as emerging around 1780 with the Industrial Revolution. But war capitalism, which began to develop in the sixteenth century, came long before machines and factories.” He continues, “When we think of capitalism, we think of wage workers, yet this prior phase of capitalism was based not on free labor but on slavery. We associate industrial capitalism with contracts and markets, but early capitalism was based as often as not on violence and bodily coercion.” Beckert describes this stage as an “important but often unrecognized phase in the development of capitalism” whose history has been erase by those “craving a nobler, cleaner” account."
Beckert emphasizes the role of slavery in the rise of capitalism. While slavery is not capitalism, per se, it has played an integral part in the evolution of capitalism. I had it wrong. Capitalism is a subset of chattel slavery, not the other way around. But that still doesn't change my basic premise all that much. And you will always be a megalomaniacal idiot!