Why Not Slavery?
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By the time you are read this, most probably the peoples of lovely pissing Ireland will once again be slovenly paupers dressed in rags with begging bowls and long unkempt hair and straggly beards and cheap trainers. This is will be because the Irish government is today introducing its most swingeing budget in history, abolishing things like old age pensions, unemployment benefits, child welfare, free school dinners, schools in general, hospitals, and roads. Nobody can be any more in doubt that the message I am having been saying for years is correct: Capitalism was a mistake from the very beginning. It simply does not work.
Many of you, I know, have been unsympathetic to my calls for a return to feudalism in the previous, and I am also aware that I may have been come across to some people as intransigent and dogmatic when I have put out contracts on those who have disagree with me, but the urgency of the times require now that we revisit our assumptions for the good of society as a hole and see if we cannot reach some kind of compromise that all of us can live with, even if it does not meet any of our individual conceptions of the ideal utopium society.
Is therefore my humble contention then that we should give strong consideration in lovely pissing Ireland to the reintroduction of slavery. This is a social relationship that have receive a very bad press, is fair to say, in recent years, but if you look closely at the people who have been giving the bad press, they have mostly been the lackeys of the capitalists, bankers, speculators, Illuminati, masons and so on who have the most to benefit from the abolition of slavery. For the simple truth is this: Bosses have a greater incentive to look after their workers when they own them. They must look after them the way they look after a pet or a racehorse or a burro, by feeding and clothing and housing them and ensuring that they can put in a full day’s work every day. This is obviously a major responsibility and impose many obligation on the slave owner, which is why so many of them either (1) did a bad job of it or (b) were very relieve when slavery was over and they just had to pay the former slave for time at work, out of which money, then called wages, the slave would have to buy his own clothes, uniform, food, house, car, package holiday and so on.
I am have made this point before about the emancipation of the serf in Russia on March 3rd, 1861, which result in lots and lots of unemployed Russian peasants wandering all over the country and getting up to no good, a major mistake by the Czsar Alesander and which lead directly to the revolution because people had nothing better to do. The truth is that the devil find work for idle Hans, and slavery will always ensure that he has something to occupy him and keep him busy. This is something, incidentally, that the capitalists never are bother to mention: NO Slave was ever unemployed or without work. NO Slave was ever made homeless. NO Slave didn’t not know where his next meal was coming from. And NO Slave was told to go back where he was come from.
I have see already only this week on the Irish television the scrapegoating of immigrants by the media and the government in the hope that people will blame them instead of capitalism for the current mess the country is in. I am remember very well some short-sighted fascist comrades of mine making the same argument back in the 1970s: 3 million unemployed, 3 million immigrants, therefore send them back and everyone else will have a job. But the beauty of slavery is that the hole system is base on immigrants, and there is never any concern about unemployment, as I am have pointed out, because work can always be find for slaves, even if it just picking their own potatoes and the bosses’ noses. Someone have got to do it!
Now some people are say to me, “Manuel, this is all very well and an escellent good idea, but you are forgetting all about the cruelty and barbarity and viciousness of slavery. We know all about. It was in that movie.” To which I am say simply this: Other times have other morals. If you are go look back at the 17th and 18th centuries, you will see that everybody was flogged, not just slaves. Sailors in the army was flogged, schoolchildren in schools was flogged, prisoners in prisons was flogged, and judges in their secret chambers was flogged, often by naked ladies. The Past was generally quite keen on corporal punishment. And it was not like it was transgressors alone who suffered. Monks used to flog themselves, and they hadn’t not done anything wrong at all!
So you are have to understand that such behaviour was being relative to its time, and I am not imagining for one minute that slavery would be anything like as brutal as it once was, simply because life in general today is less brutal. Of course, modern life is gruesome, decadent, corrupt and disgusting, that go without saying, but let us not forget that this is because of democracy and capitalism, and once they are abolish, everything will settle back into its natural order and everyone once more will be as happy as the Sandman.
If anyone is need any help initiating the campaign for the restoration of slavery, please get in touch with me. I have already an assortment of whips, chains, gimp masks, shackles, and branding irons, and I can assure you that bondage can be a stimulating and arousing esperience that everyone should undergo for at least several generations. I cannot understand why anyone would want to give it up!
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