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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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In severity, yes. Slavery is absolutely terrible and I don't mean to diminish the horrors of it. I'm just saying if we look at them through the lens of class analysis, chattel slaves and wage slaves are on the same scale. If a chattel slave refuses to participate in the system, the consequences are usually swift and brutal. But if someone relying on wage work to survive today decides to stop participating in the system, what are their consequences? Starvation, utilities cut off, homelessness. Not as immediate, but still awful, and very often fatal. We're all participating in a system designed to prop up some bourgeoisie overlords who don't give a fuck about us, and refusing to go along with their system means death. Only now you get killed by the system instead of by an angry white man so the news can pretend it's not real violence.
Sorry for the rambling, I'm just really high right now and putting way too much thought into this.
I'm not saying they are literally exactly the same and I don't know how to make this any more clear. Both classes are exploited for their labor in the pursuit of profit, and both are coerced into participating in the system by punishment of death. They have similarities, but I am not saying they are exactly the same. Chattel slavery is several orders of magnitude worse than wage slavery - but they can both be measured on the same metaphorical magnitude scale.