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Was slavery a necessary step in the development and evolution of human civilization like capitalism is? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please don't take this question the wrong way, I am just trying to learn and get the opinions of more people on this subject. I find it interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was referring to slavery as a necessary step during antiquity only, more recent slavery I don't believe to have been inevitable at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "terrible swift sword" that forced hunter-gatherers into the wheat fields was maybe necessary for economy of scale early agriculture, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I can see the argument, but the amount of free labor it takes to maintain a slave system is so high (especially when there isn't much in the way of technology) that significant slavery at the dawn of agriculture seems unlikely. Seems like that's something you could only start to pull off with a decent sized city state's worth of overseer labor, and at that point you've already had agriculture for a while.