Tag: Oppression

• January 19, 2022

  Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality

  Hi. Just browsing my library and sharing some highlights. Check out some of these quotes from Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a leading Genevan philosopher and political theorist and one of the key figures of the Enlightenment. Dedication to the Republic of Geneva: Once peoples once accustomed to masters, they are no longer…
• October 14, 2019

  The Christian Communist Manifesto

  Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…
• January 2, 2018

  Jefferson on Wage Slavery

  In my recent article, Wage Slavery: A Quick History, I gave several historical references to the term “wage slavery”. I came across a letter form Jefferson to his friend Thomas Cooper where Jefferson was comparing the population of England to that of the United States. In the letter, Jefferson does not use the term “wage slavery”, but…