• 85 Posts
  • 1.19K Comments
Joined 6 years ago
cake
Cake day: April 17th, 2019

help-circle





  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Why does John Locke say all creatures of the same species are equal when you claim he’s only thinking of the white ones?

    John Locke was a shareholder in the royal african company (a slave trading / capturing company), and also helped author the constitution of the carolinas that enshrined slavery. He also justifies it as captives taken in a “just war” . From his two treatises:

    captives taken in a just war forfeited their lives and, with it, their liberties. [They were slaves] ‘subjected to the absolute dominion and arbitrary power of their masters’.

    Locke on indigenous peoples:

    When he sought to challenge the march of civilization, violently opposing exploitation through labour of the uncultivated land occupied by him, the Indian, along with any other criminal, could be equated with ‘one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security’, and who ‘therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tiger’. Locke never tired of insisting on the right possessed by any man to destroy those reduced to the level of ‘beasts of prey’, ‘savage beasts’; to the level of ‘a savage ravenous beast that is dangerous to his being’.

    This is all out in the open. I suggest you read the book I linked above.


  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Wrong again. John Locke (the founder of liberalism), owned shares in slavery-concerns, and openly defended slavery. The 3 liberal countries (US, UK, and Netherlands), all heavily engaged in the slave trade, (britain and the US especially). The US genocided an entire contintent and hundreds of native tribes, under a liberal form of government.

    Nazi germany explicitly tried to emulate the US model (Doing to eastern europe what the US did to turtle island), and failed. In fact the only thing you can say with regard to fascism vs liberalism, is that liberalism is far more effective form of government for genocide than fascism was.



  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHave some civility.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Please read Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history. Because from its very inception, in all of liberalism’s founding authors and countries, liberalism has meant unlimited freedom only for rich, white, male, property-owners / capitalists. Colonized peoples, the poor, workers, and women have always been and were explicitly excluded from the community of the free.

    The history of liberalism is one of theft, disposession, and slavery.