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The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Socialism, with such despotic head, approaches very near to Southern slavery, and gets along very well so long as the depot lives.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
The vampire capitalist class impose all the taxes, and pay none.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
The normal state of a free society is a state of famine.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Private property destroys liberty and equality.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
The husband has a legally recognized property in his wife’s services, and may legally control, in some measure, her personal liberty. She is his property and his slave.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
But the capitalist, living on his income, gives nothing to his subjects. He lives by mere exploitation.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
What is falsely called Free Society, is a very recent invention. It purposes to make the weak, ignorant and poor, free, by turning them loose in a world owned exclusively by the few.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Liberty of the press, liberty of speech, freedom of religion, or rather freedom from religion, and the unlimited right of private judgement have borne no good fruit, and many bad ones.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of negro slaves. Indeed, they have not a single right or a single liberty, unless it be the right or liberty to die.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Slavery is a form of communism… The manner to which the change shall be made from the present form of society to that system of communism which we propose is very simple.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Were he a slave, he would enjoy in fact as well as in legal fiction, all necessary and essential rights. Pure air and water, a house, sufficient food, fire, and clothing, would be his at all times.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
[T]he capitalists now live entirely by the proceeds of poor men’s labor, which capital enables them to command.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. ‘It is the duty of society to protect the weak;’ but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, ‘It is the duty of society to enslave the weak’.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
We conclude that about nineteen out of every twenty individuals have ‘a natural and inalienable right’ to be taken care of and protected; to have guardians, trustees, husbands, or masters; in other words, they have the natural and inalienable right to be slaves.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
We say allowance, not wages; for neither slaves nor free laborers get wages, in the popular sense of the term: that is, the employer or capitalist pays them for nothing of his own, but allows them a part, generally a very small part of the proceeds of their own labor.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
Money is the great weapon in a free, equal and competitive society, which skill and capital employ in the war of the wits, to exploitate and oppress the poor, the improvident, and the weak-minded. Its evil effects are greatly aggravated by the credit and banking systems.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
[Man] is not free because he has no where that he may rightfully lay his head. Private property has monopolized the earth, and destroyed both his liberty and equality.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
But slavery does, in practice as well as in theory, acknowledge and enforce the right of all to be comfortably supported from the soil. There was, we repeat, no pauperism in Europe till feudal slavery was abolished.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)
[T]he unrestricted exploitation of so-called free society is more oppressive to the laborer than domestic slavery.
Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857)