Colonization of time

[David Casseres]

Andrew sez

>... to explain the continuity between existing institutions and
>slavery is to show how close we are sailing to the wind. What we have
>now is more humane than slavery but, doubtless, there are good market
>reasons for that. Just wait till the market gets a bit more
>overcrowded and hope that slavery still stays out of the equation.

Quite right.  As a footnote to that, remember that our current, common 
definition of slavery is what used to be called "chattel slavery" to 
distinguish it from other forms of slavery, such as indentured service 
(contract slavery) and "wage slavery."  In both England and America, 
chattel slavery was abolished with great fanfare, while the other forms 
became institutions to be struggled over, bargained over, "reformed," 
regulated with more or less honesty, usw.  Chattel slavery is the 
harshest, the most cruel and absolute form of slavery, but there is 
indeed a continuum of which chattel slavery is but an extreme.


Cheers,
David