Tag: Wage
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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)…
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Karl Marx, the American Worker, and the Natural Rise of Socialist Movements
Karl Marx is possibly history’s most divisive figure. I argue that he unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what the world was already thinking. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, and exploitation were already on the minds of the American labor class years before they even knew who Karl Marx was. That…
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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In my recent article, Wage Slavery: A Quick History, I gave several historical references to the term “wage slavery”.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…
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Wage Slavery: A Quick History
Noam Chomsky Interview: History is Not Over, April 18, 1997: Go back to the 1870s, the New York Times was denouncing wage labor. The standard of the Republican Party around 1870 was “We’re the party who opposes slavery and who opposes wage slavery.” The Republican Party, you know, we’re not talking about wild radicals. It…