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"…the great truth which lies at the foundation of all society—that every man has property in his fellow-man!"
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George FitzhughThe vampire capitalist class impose all the taxes, and pay none. — George Fitzhugh
"The vampire capitalist class impose all the taxes, and pay none."
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George Fitzhugh was an American social theorist who published racial and pro-slavery social theories in the pre-Civil War era. He argued that the negro was "but a grown up child" needing the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh favorably contrasted slavery in the American South with capitalism in the Northern United States, decrying the latter as "a war of the rich with the poor, a
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"No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving."
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"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."
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"The negro is improvident; will not lay up in summer for the wants of winter; will not accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age. He would become an insufferable burden to society. Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery."
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"Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery."
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"Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
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