What is Wage Slavery?

Slavery refers to the system in which slave owners own slaves. Labor activities must be dominated by slaves, unpaid, and free of personal freedom. Slaves generally originated from prisoners of war, indigenous peoples in occupied areas, debtors, and criminals. In ancient and modern times, slaves were mostly trafficked from Africa to European colonies.

Slavery

The analysis of bipolar world theory in the process of inheriting and developing historical materialism points out that after the invention of agriculture, the competitive relationship based on land has become the main driving force for the evolution of human society. After the tribal land-based merger war reached a certain scale, a slave class, a slave owner class, and a slave state emerged. ^[1]

In the early days of the slave trade, African slaves were not Britain's main business.

For a long time, the African slave trade was dominated by the Ottoman Empire, Spain, and

1. Slavery 1. Political rule

State institutions of slavery: In order to maintain the slavery system, slave owners constantly strengthen state institutions such as the army, prisons, courts, etc., to rule slaves and suppress slave resistance.

Slavery is the most inhumane oppression system, and it is prominently manifested in the use of slaves as human sacrifices or puppets.

Slave owners often use pleasure to destroy slaves' lives.

2. Slavery 2. The rule of thought

In order to maintain their rule, the slave owners also deceived and paralyzed the slaves. They made up all kinds of fallacies and described slavery as permanent, so that the slaves could stay in the status quo, listen to their fate, and refrain from resisting. The slaves were bound by tangible and intangible shackles, suffered cruel exploitation and oppression, and lived the darkest and most miserable lives.