Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Anti-CRT Mom Desperate To Forget George Washington Owned Slaves" video.

  1. There's some great points being made but there's also some serious over-hyped BULLSHlT as well. Slavery was being practiced for 1,000s of years before Capitalism was a thing. Emma's a smart girl but damn sometimes she gets her wires crossed. I'm reading Adam Smiths "Wealth of Nations" right now. Yeah there's some dumb backward stuff but there's no mention of slavery. He talks a lot about labor, skilled labor and the value of labor. If you go and listen to Richard Wolff on Marx then you'll find Smith and Marx were contemporaries with differing views on the value of labour. They were both against the system that was in place BEFORE capitalism - a system called Mercantilism and it wasn't based on labor or slavery it was based on trade, but it did go hand with slavery and oppression. Go read up on the British East India Company. There's a great lecture by Mariana Mazzucato titled "Redefining Economic Value" (here on YT) About 7 minutes in she has a slide and goes through the different economic ideologies of the last few centuries and how they focused on different ways to create value. Between the Mercantilists and Classical Capitalists there was a short era called the Physiocrats who were pre-industrial revolution and based value creation around agriculture. They absolutely relied on slavery because tractors and combine harvesters didn't yet exist. They operated just as kings and emperors had going all the way back to the dawn of civilisation in Ancient Egypt. If you had large areas to farm you needed lots of slaves to farm it. That's why America had slavery they needed them to pick all that cotton and then pick out the cotton seed.
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