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Modern slavery

Modern slavery: the libertarian critique of civilization

Abbreviation: Mod. Slavery

Published by: Columbia Alternative Library Press

Publisher Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Journal Website:
http://modernslavery.calpress.org

Publication Date Range: 2012 --

Number of articles from this journal included in the SafetyLit database: 0
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pISSN = 2168-8117
OCLC = 800135981

Find a library that holds this journal: http://worldcat.org/issn/21688117

Journal Language(s): English

Aims and Scope (from publisher): Modern slavery should need no introduction. Modern slavery already intrudes into every aspect of life, debasing all it touches. It is the underlying organizing principle for all major economic institutions east and west, north and south. Its support and defense are the unspoken but automatically-understood objects of all major – and the vast majority of the minor – social, political and cultural institutions. Its infrastructure and demands extend into the deepest levels of modern consciousness, coloring our dreams as well as our nightmares. Yet modern slavery is largely invisible.

This is the reason Modern Slavery has been launched. To remind the libertarian milieu in general that promoting visions of freer slavery is no more than a continuing road to nowhere. For libertarian projects and movements to become relevant and more than sometimes amusing side shows to an onrushing future of post-modern cybernetic
totalitarianism we need to stop all the self-defeating compromises with the pro-slavery left and right: both socialists and capitalists, red fascists and black fascists. If we can’t call slavery “slavery” and show ourselves and others that we won’t tolerate it, then we haven’t got much worth contributing to any anti-political, anti-state debate. If we can’t demonstrate that it’s possible to build new communities where slave holders, slave drivers and slave auctioneers are an extinct species, why call ourselves
libertarians or anarchists at all?

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