Global Slavery Index globalslaveryindex.org/ and article truthdig/eartotheground/item/where_do_todays_slaves_live_20131022 they are revealing some horrid things here and this is an important resource. it helps many. slavery has to end now. many might do well to mention, beyond people held in bondage also the exploitative economic system called capitalism this happens in. there is great pressure to keep doing this under it. you are forced to cut costs and labor costs or go out of business. in it you are free to starve. exploitation, domination, and oppression is perpetuated in it. in order for a more long term fix it is good to look perhaps at these issues. quote from Richard Wolfee The history of economic systems over the centuries (the slave, feudal, and capitalist modes of production) is one of continued exploitation. Its forms change but its substance persists. An exploitative system is one in which the producers of surpluses are excluded from receiving/appropriating them and then distributing them. Those latter functions - appropriation and distribution - are performed by others: by slave masters instead of slaves, by lords instead of serfs, and by capitalists instead of the productive (i.e. surplus-producing) workers they employ. they mention chattel slavery but they do not mention the wage system. wage labour is that it requires us to give up the product of our labour for a wage, which is in fact a proportion of our own labour. This is exploitation. Since retaining control over the product of our labour is the basis of our economic independence, being forced to give it up also means giving up (much)control over the conditions of our work and submitting to the autocratic hierarchies inherent to capitalist relations of production (ie. those who monopolise wealth are able to force to do what they want). posiitve changes help, they are good . sometimes with some changes though it bolsters the system and strengthens it oddly enough like with the reforms after the war. it paved the way for very good changes but set the stage without really adressing capitalism for capital to take advantage of the situation and to exploit it and sell it. we should start to get to get beyond reformism to revolutionary change. to get beyond it we need very comprehensive look at the structure behind things and a direct democratizing of our labor. general strikes, a pre figurative politik, truely working within the ecological lifecycles and stopages of our labor going to expropriators among many efforts may help us along this way.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:46:12 +0000
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