tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post9095953737096810418..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A REPLY TO PROFESSOR PIGDEN AND OTHERSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-69124218144124500812017-12-30T19:55:23.048-05:002017-12-30T19:55:23.048-05:00Another implication of "chattel" slavery...Another implication of "chattel" slavery is that chattels are moveable goods. They can be bought and sold and the purchaser can pick them up and take them to another location if they so wish. English common law traditionally drew a distinction between chattels and real property, and there are very different conditions for sale and inheritance associated with real property. (This is "real" in the sense of "real estate", not in any sense associated with any of the philosophical debates associated with the term "realism".)<br /><br />So chattel slavery implies that slaves can be bought, sold, and inherited like farming implements, and not like a house or like the land itself. This distinction was drawn to make clear that chattel slaves were not serfs in the European sense. Serfs could not be bought or sold independently of the property they lived and worked on. Serfs were considered part of the land. Chattel slaves were not part of the land.mesnenorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10813095598060277786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-19239030590053919852017-12-30T18:49:19.625-05:002017-12-30T18:49:19.625-05:00Thank you for the explanation.Thank you for the explanation.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296677552107805508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-78196013426749247742017-12-30T12:29:57.810-05:002017-12-30T12:29:57.810-05:00chattel slavery is hereditary slavery, unlike the ...chattel slavery is hereditary slavery, unlike the slavery in ancient Greece, or in parts of West Africa, etc.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-44527682226842336112017-12-30T11:54:12.923-05:002017-12-30T11:54:12.923-05:00To be more specific, just because the correct s...To be more specific, just because the correct strategy for the radical left is to unite with the center-left (mainstream Democrats) against Trump does not necessarily mean that every member of the radical left has to adapt or moderate their discourse to suit that strategy. <br /><br />There are multiple goods at stake here, the most important of them being to get rid of Trump, but another good is teaching people the truth about U.S. history and that still has its place, even though the most important good is that of getting rid of Trump.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-37234885296939670982017-12-30T11:36:17.437-05:002017-12-30T11:36:17.437-05:00What is the difference between slavery and chattel...What is the difference between slavery and chattel slavery?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296677552107805508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-30432213677245210842017-12-30T11:31:09.137-05:002017-12-30T11:31:09.137-05:00I myself find it hard to resist pointing out what ...I myself find it hard to resist pointing out what you point out, and having lived most of my life in Latin America, I find it even harder not to point out the vicious history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, which is as greedy, homicidal and undemocratic as European imperialism in Africa, except "we" generally used local elites, Somoza, Trujillo, Pinochet, Stroessner, to do our dirty work. <br /><br />That this homicidal imperialism is justified in U.S. media by a rhetoric of freedom and human rights makes it doubly irritating, and as all of you may have noticed, I find it difficult to refrain from lecturing others on the subject. <br /><br />Maybe my mission in life is to lecture others about the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. There's a interview with Chomsky from some years ago, where the interviewer asks him why he's not supporting the Democratic candidate in the election. Doesn't Chomsky realize, the interviewer asks, that the Democrats are better than the Republicans? Sure, answers Chomsky, but supporting the Democrats isn't my mission in life, criticizing U.S. foreign policy without compromising is.<br /><br />So maybe, Professor Wolff, your mission in life is to keeping speaking the truth about U.S. racism and U.S. imperialism without compromising.<br /><br />s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com