MDMD(4) (Re: gallows, slavery, ect)

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

> 108.26    "for Commerce without Slavery is unthinkable, whilst Slavery
> must ever include, as an essential Term, the Gallows,--Slavery without
> the Gallows being as hollow and Waste a Proceeding, as a Crusade without
> the Cross."

Brian D. McCary wrote:
[snip]
> And why would Slavery without the Gallows be hollow and a Waste? 
> Because, no matter what short term threats might keep the slaves in
> line, without the thought of death, they will eventually leave the
> arrangement, as surely as Katje left Blicero and Gotfried.  Just decide
> one day that it is no longer worth it.  Without the Gallows, your large
> scale undervalued Slave labor pool will fall apart, just as a Crusade
> will fall apart at key moments without some rallying symbol of marterdom
> to spur the poor suckers on. 

The words "hollow and Waste a Proceeding" imply to me something different
than that the slaves would run away without the threat of the Gallows.

I think P.'s repeating with variations a theme from GR (quoted yesterday
by Murthy)--the theme of colonies (or in this case slavery) functioning as
"the outhouses of the European soul," and so on (GR p.317).  I think he's
saying that without the Gallows, the Ultimate Power, this function will
not be fully realized, rendering slavery "hollow and Waste."

	Steve Maas