The Takedown with Nick: Why Hillary Won't Move Left and Why We Have to Fight Her Neoliberalism

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[DixonFrancoisJr]

In the face of that, I'm voting for Jill Stein.

[cormackbranson]

Considering everything that has happened, I'll never vote democratic again, my only option at this point is to vote for the green party, let the chips fall where they may.

[seroccoprime]

You have to force her to the left.

You'd argue she doesn't have to or that she won't, but then, that's the same argument used over gay marriage.

Quitting before you start is self defeating.

[acegamesmuch]

time to stand up and demand change not ask for it. #jill2016

[kennethferland]

The figure your looking for is that slaves were values more then ALL infrastructure, factories and land in the country.

An upper limit on the likely existence of chattel slavery was probably around 1900 which was what we saw in Latin America. The plantation owners themselves would have transitioned to wage slavery once most of the available land is in their hands as then labor is no longer the limiting factor in agricultural production and their is no reason to own labor. They would simply free their slaves who would have no opportunity to own and farm land of their own and would have no choice but to work at what ever wage the land owners wish. It was only the unique combination of basically free land for the taking in the new world that created chattel slavery, once that was consumed the Feudal system of landed aristocracy and peasants basically re-asserted itself as that is the inevitable end stage of the western land ownership model.

Industrialism in it's ability to decouple productivity from land creates a kind of perpetual 'new world' which is one step ahead of the concentration of wealth and power inherent in our society.