This comment by ozza on the post You Chose Slavery: How to Claim Our Heritage as Free Men
There is more than just one type of slavery – to say that only the most violent forms of chattel slavery are worthy of the name slavery is a bit silly. Indenture or debt slavery is another form of economic slavery, but is common amongst apparently wealthy people. Serfdom or tenantry is another, again one which is common in rich countries and wouldn’t necessarily be called slavery because it is not chattel slavery. This article talks about psychological slavery as another facet of the same dynamic – having your free will usurped for the desires of another, which is fair enough. – See more at: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/mru-you-chose-slavery/#sthash.DoxMZPra.dpuf
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Food for Thought:
Should the term “slavery” be only limited to the physical servitude type, or should it extend to all forms of bondage, including the psychological kind?
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My impression is that many advocates for ending modern slavery avoid drawong any connections to the legal enslavement of Africans.Nonetheless,slavery seems to have existed in cultures around the world since shortly after the dawn of time.It was Rome that first institutionalized slavery on a modern scale,normalizing it as a function of a contemporary nation state.And of course slavery is enrhined in the religious cultures of Islam,Judaism and Christianity.Slavery in a variety of forms, is deeply embeded in human cultures.It has always been among us yet act like its new.
Unfortunately there are still millions of people (men, women and children) all around the world today that are toiling and dying in slavery all around the world, including in the US. A meaningful debate and demand for immediate action to stop all kinds of slavery is critical. When we hear the term “slavery” we associate it with our past, slaves in the US south, civil war and all the atrocities and inhumanity involved. Limiting the fight to that era and history does a great disservice to the broad critical problem of present day slavery in all its forms, including the… Read more »
Nice, Tsach! I agree completely!