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Mon, 06/19/2017 - 9:00am to 10:00am
HOW THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY POINTS THE WAY TO SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
The abolition of slavery was seen as an assault on property rights, and so it was, as millions of enslaved people valued in the billions of dollars ceased to be property on June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth). This constituted a radical change that points the way towards abolishing the dependence of workers on capital by abolishing private ownership of social wealth. Clayton Morgareidge explains, in this commentary.
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