Karl Marx - Advocate of Slavery?

Date: 23rd April '01

Name: anon

Country: -

"Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton;
without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that has given the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have
created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry. Thus slavery is an economic
category of the greatest importance.

"Without slavery North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Wipe
out North America from the map of the world, and you will have anarchy - the complete decay of modern commerce and
civilisation."

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