As mentioned earlier Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter- History is a pretty serious salvo against 17th-19th century liberalism and does indeed talk in great detail about how the veneration of individual property rights was used to oppose any state interference in owning, beating, selling, CW
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or killing the humans you own.
Good text, pretty formal in its format but some really great arguments.
sorry, I had a brain hiccup. I only got three hours of sleep but now I remember reading this. I ordered Losurdo's Counter-History afterwards but haven't cracked it open yet
some Losurdo I've read has touched on it, I haven't read it yet but quite sure Liberalism: a Counter-History goes in depth. it's one of the great myths of our time that things like slavery, colonialism, and mass exploitation are somehow anathema to liberalism or aberrations of it. they are part and parcel. John Locke defended slavery.
Never forget that the defense of slavery is literally one of the core founding principles of liberalism.
It is fundamentally broken
when you have a chance I would like to read more in depth about this
As mentioned earlier Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter- History is a pretty serious salvo against 17th-19th century liberalism and does indeed talk in great detail about how the veneration of individual property rights was used to oppose any state interference in owning, beating, selling, CW
spoilerremoved,
or killing the humans you own.
Good text, pretty formal in its format but some really great arguments.
This section from the essay Really Existing Fascism covers it in some detail.
sorry, I had a brain hiccup. I only got three hours of sleep but now I remember reading this. I ordered Losurdo's Counter-History afterwards but haven't cracked it open yet
some Losurdo I've read has touched on it, I haven't read it yet but quite sure Liberalism: a Counter-History goes in depth. it's one of the great myths of our time that things like slavery, colonialism, and mass exploitation are somehow anathema to liberalism or aberrations of it. they are part and parcel. John Locke defended slavery.