veganvenom:

[Image description: A facebook post by the Hampton Institute reads:
“The Enclosure Acts tell us all we need to know about capitalism. The
fact that feudal peasants had to be *forced to participate in wage
labor* through a legislative destruction of the commons, which kicked
them off the land and immediately transformed human needs from basic
rights to commodities, says a lot about the utterly coercive nature of
this quasi-slave system.

In Europe, feudal peasants viewed capitalism as a downgrade. They were consequently prodded into factories and
mills like cattle. In many parts of the world, stripping entire
populations of sustenance for the sake of ‘private property’ was unheard
of. In America, former slaves like Frederick Douglass viewed capitalist
labor as ‘a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in
its effects than chattel slavery’ and demanded that ‘this slavery of
wages must go down with the other.’

Let that sink in for a moment.
 #Capitalism”]