George Fitzhugh

A Southern farm is a sort of joint stock concern, or social phalastery, in which the master furnishes the capital and skill, and the slaves the labor, and divide the profits, not according to each one’s in-put, but according to each one’s …

all governments, in civilized countries, recognize the obligation to support the poor, and thus, in some degree, make all property a common possession.

Slavery protects the infants, the aged and the sick; nay, takes far better care of them of the healthy, the middle-aged and the strong.

Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.

The capitalist cheapens their wages; they compete with and underbid each other, for employed they must be on any terms. This war of the rich with the poor and the poor with one another, is the morality which political economy inculcates.