Slavery

Referenced from Slides 151-152, 185, 204-210, 214, 220 of Health Revealed:​​

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What is Slavery?​

Referenced from The Liberator 2 News, Abolitionist Newspaper based on the 19th Century

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Etymology: "severe toil, hard work, drudgery;" ~ "state of servitude" ~ "person who is the chattel or property of another," (Old French esclave, Medieval Latin sclavus, Italian schiavo, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav;" used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples (Slav refer to "one of the people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe"). Related to "robot" from rabu "slave." A slave-holder is "one who owns a slave or slaves." A slave-driver is an "overseer of slaves at their work."

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Chattel Slavery: The complete ownership of one individual by another; the claim over 100% of somebody’s labor or property; the use of involuntary free labor. Individuals under this condition are under duress, or the continued threat of violence. This form is also known as overt physical slavery, or “ball-and-chains” slavery. From Etymology: “property, goods” ~ “wealth, possessions, property, cattle” ~ “property” of any kind, including money, land, or income ~ "moveable property, livestock" (Old French chatel, Anglo-French catel, Medieval Latin capitale, Middle English)

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Slavery is the “submission or subjection to control by the will of another being"

— Henry Clarke Wright, Abolitionist

 

Slavery is "the claim of ownership over the life of another individual or their property;
or the involuntary servitude of an individual’s labor to another; or the control over the life of another by threat of violence."

— Cory Edmund Endrulat, Author

“The necessity to do what other people wish against your own will is slavery. And, therefore, as long as any violence, designed to compel some people to do the will of others, exists there will be slavery."

— Leo Tolstoy, Author

“Slavery is theft – theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce,
theft even of the children a slave might have borne."

— Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery

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"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.
Anything less is a form of slavery."

— Wayne Dyer, Author​​​

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What is Mental Slavery?

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Referenced from Cory Endrulat, "Slavery Gone For Good: Black Book Edition"

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Mental Slavery or Internal Slavery is the condition of unquestionable or self-induced servitude, not being able to reason and think for yourself. It may be considered the condition of Mind Control or Menticide, leading to and maintaining Physical Slavery or External Slavery, and therefore being the root cause to all slavery.​ Commonly considered the "most dangerous" form of slavery, it can also be considered as Self-Enslavement.

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In this mental condition, freedom is feared and security-dependence is embraced. It would be normal for the slave to have a lack of responsibility over their own property, as it wasn’t recognized and embraced as their own, it instead belonged to their "master." The visible violence of Physical Slavery, overt as it is, isn’t necessary if the slave complies on their own and becomes convinced of their own slavery and lack of need in freedom, making slavery more covert.​ This is also why many of the 19th century American abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Adin Ballou, Josiah Warren, Lysander Spooner, Henry Clarke Wright, Henry David Thoreau and others encouraged moral education or voluntaryism as the main or only solution, for primarily the slaves who must free themselves but also everyone.​​

 

“To be a slave-holder is to be a propagandist from necessity; for slavery can only live by keeping down the under-growth morality which nature supplies... To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able to convince him that he has a perfect right to do so. It must not depend upon mere force; the slave must know no Higher Law than his master's will. The whole relationship must not only demonstrate, to his mind, its necessity, but its absolute rightfulness... When a slave becomes a happy slave, he has effectively relinquished all that makes him human.”

— Frederick Douglass, Former Slave, Abolitionist​

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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds"

— Bob Marley, Artist

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"To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."

— Mahatma Gandhi, Philosopher

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“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline”

— Mortimer Adler, Encyclopedist

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“It is demonstrated that to capture a man it is not sufficient to enslave his body – it is necessary to enlist his reason; that to free a man it is not enough to strike the shackles from his limbs—his mind must be liberated from bondage to his own ignorance.”

— Manly P. Hall, Author

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“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom and a firm sense of self-esteem is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery... We so often ask, ‘What will happen to my job, my prestige, or my status if I take a stand on this issue? Will my home be bombed, will my life be threatened, or will I be jailed?’ The good man always reverses the question... Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness… The way to produce a perfect slave. Accustom him to rigid discipline, demand from him unconditional submission, impress upon him a sense of his innate inferiority, develop in him a paralyzing fear... train him to adopt the master’s code of good behavior, and instill in him a sense of complete dependence... He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery... This degradation was sanctioned and protected by institutions of government... human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some rationalization to clothe their acts in the garments of righteousness. And so, with the growth of slavery... The haunting ambivalence, the intellectual and moral recognition that slavery is wrong, but the emotional tie to the system so deep and pervasive that it imposes an inflexible unwillingness to root it out”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Author

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The Four Staggering Untold Slavery Statistics​

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A shocking view of world history has been offered to us, in understanding the psychological, economical, anthropological and historical nature of slavery. This is due to the fact these connections have not been recognized in mainstream academia. However, they present a potentially groundbreaking and disturbing case of correlations that could re-shape the mass public perception on morality and their own Mental Slavery in the form of Statism. The following 5 points are detailed among the work "Slavery Gone For Good: Black Book Edition" by Cory Endrulat (inspired by "Radical Abolitionism: The Government of God in Anti-Slavery Thought" by Historian Lewis Perry) in his compilation of hundreds of quotes on this subject:

 

1) The 19th century American Abolitionists and other historic writers spoke about how Chattel Slavery was one form, or that slavery never truly ended. Lysander Spooner for instance, would detail how Political Slavery is what allowed or ever maintained Chattel Slavery; this would associate Statism or the belief in man-made "authority" with Mental Slavery directly.

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"No wonder that the slaves themselves, who have always been enslaved, do not understand their own position, and that this condition in which they have always lived is considered by them to be natural to human life, and that they hail as a relief any change in their form of slavery; no wonder that their owners sometimes quite sincerely think they are, in a measure, freeing the slaves by slacking one screw, though they are compelled to do so by the overtension of another. Both become accustomed to their state; and the slaves, never having known what freedom is, merely seek an alleviation, or only the change of their condition; the other, the owners, wishing to mask their injustice, try to assign a particular meaning to those new forms of slavery which they enforce in place of the older ones."

— Leo Tolstoy, Author (studied American Abolitionists, as with Benjamin Tucker)

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“Slavery is the complete and absolute subjection of one person to the control and disposal of another person, by legalized force. We need not argue that no person can be, rightfully, compelled to submit to such control and disposal. All such subjection must originate in force; and, private force not being strong enough to accomplish the purpose, public force, in the form of law, must lend its aid. The government comes to the help of the individual slaveholder, and punishes resistance to his will, and compels submission. The government, therefore, in the case of every individual slave, is the real enslaver, depriving each person enslaved of all liberty and all property, and all that makes life dear... For slavery cannot subsist a moment after the support of the public force has been withdrawn.”

— Salmon Chase, Abolitionist​

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“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere,
unless it is supported by local police regulations.”

— Stephen A. Douglas, Lawyer

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"The pretense that the ‘abolition of slavery’ was either a motive or justification for the war, is a fraud of the same character with that of ‘maintaining the national honor.’ Who, but such usurpers, robbers, and murderers as they, ever established slavery? Or what government, except one resting upon the sword, like the one we now have, was ever capable of maintaining slavery? And why did these men abolish slavery? Not from any love of liberty in general —not as an act of justice to the black man himself, but only ‘as a war measure,’ and because they wanted his assistance, and that of his friends, in carrying on the war they had undertaken for maintaining and intensifying that political, commercial, and industrial slavery, to which they have subjected the great body of the people, both white and black. And yet these imposters now cry out that they have abolished the chattel slavery of the black man —although that was not the motive of the war— as if they thought they could thereby conceal, atone for, or justify that other slavery which they were fighting to perpetuate, and to render more rigorous and inexorable than it ever was before. There was no difference of principle—but only of degree— between the slavery they boast they have abolished, and the slavery they were fighting to preserve; for all restraints upon men's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree... These tyrants, living solely on plunder, and on the labor of their slaves, and applying all their energies to the seizure of still more plunder, and the enslavement of still other defenseless persons; increasing, too, their numbers, perfecting their organizations, and multiplying their weapons of war, they extend their conquests until, in order to hold what they have already got, it becomes necessary for them to act systematically, and co-operate with each other in holding their slaves in subjection. But all this they can do only by establishing what they call a government, and making what they call laws. All the great governments of the world- those now existing, as well as those that have passed away- have been of this character. They have been mere bands of robbers, who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men. And their laws, as they have called them, have been only such agreements as they have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain their organizations, and act together in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share of the spoils. All these laws have had no more real obligation than have the agreements which brigands, bandits, and pirates find it necessary to enter into with each other, for the more successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the more peaceable division of their spoils. Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to plunder and enslave others, and hold them as property... The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves... A war carried on, upon one side, for chattel slavery, and on the other for political slavery; upon neither for liberty, justice, or truth. And these crimes have been committed, and this war waged, by men, and the descendants of men, who, less than a hundred years ago, said that all men were equal... Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given... The number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave."

— Lysander Spooner, Lawyer, Author, Abolitionist

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2) The 19th century American Abolitionists were among the first Political Anarchists or Voluntaryists in history, sharing a time as these terms were just starting to be used or were gaining relevance worldwide. Additionally, many of the Abolitionists not only stood opposed to the state, but they refrained from Political Action or Statist acts which would support the state (as also supported by the above quotes). The first "anarchist" texts are considered to be from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1840 or Max Stirner in 1844, however William Lloyd Garrison shared nearly the same sentiments in 1838, and Josiah Warren as well in 1833. This is nothing historically new however, as one may also find support from Etienne de la Boetie in his writings from 1577 or the Ancient Chinese Taoist texts from around 400 BC.​

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"The tremendous power of the Government is actively wielded to ‘crush out’ the little Anti-Slavery life that remains in individual hearts, and to open new and boundless domains for the expansion of the Slave system... We do not acknowledge allegiance to any human government... That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Hence, I am an Abolitionist. Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form—and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing—with indignation and abhorrence. Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle. They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul. I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object... As every human government is upheld by physical strength, and its laws are enforced virtually at the point of the bayonet, we cannot hold any office which imposes upon its incumbent the obligation to compel men to do right, on pain of imprisonment or death. We therefore voluntarily exclude ourselves from every legislative and judicial body, and repudiate all human politics, worldly honors, and stations of authority."

— William Lloyd Garrison, A Leading Abolitionist

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“Just so long as the individual depends on the government, or the church,
to settle the moral law, so long will slavery of every hue exist.”

— Bryan J. Butts, Abolitionist

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“Moral power is putting forth mighty energies to abolish slavery, and elevate four millions of degraded beings to the rank of manhood. It is exerting its multiform influence to regenerate a corrupt public sentiment, and to super-induce a will in the people of the United States to let the oppressed go free. Political power hinders and obstructs the progress of this reform by every possible means. It is wedded to slavery, and will uphold it till a new public opinion 
compels it to stand off.”

— Adin Ballou, Abolitionist

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3) The 19th century Pro-Slavery advocates were using the power and position of the government as an arm and justification to maintain the institution of Chattel Slavery; in other words, they were the most statist in their ideological worldview, using the same arguments for upholding slavery as the same arguments for upholding government.

 

“With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery. The proper subject of investigation for philosophers and philanthropists is, ‘Is the existing mode of government adapted to the wants of its subjects?’... It is the duty of society to protect all its members, and it can only do so by subjecting each to that degree of government constraint or slavery, which will best advance the good of each and of the whole... Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government... Adopt the slavery principle, vindicate the institution in the abstract, tighten the reins of government, restrain and punish licentiousness in every form, scout and repudiate the doctrines of let alone... and govern much and rigorously. This is the new world that we want... There is no such thing as natural human liberty, because it is unnatural for man to live alone and without the pale and government of society... The slavery principle is almost the only principle of government, the distinctive feature of man’s social and dependent nature, and the only cement that binds society together and wards off anarchy... The need of law and government is just in proportion to man’s wealth and enlightenment. Barbarians and savages need and will submit to but few and simple laws, and little of government. The love of personal liberty and freedom from all restraint, are distinguishing traits of wild men and wild beasts... No wonder the abolitionists loved to quote the Declaration of Independence! Its precepts are wholly at war with slavery and equally at war with all government, all subordination, all order... Life and liberty are not inalienable. Jefferson in sum, was the architect of ruin, the inaugurator of anarchy.”

— George Fitzhugh, A Leading Pro-Slavery Advocate, known among coining "Sociology"

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“The great strength of the South arises from the harmony of her political and social institutions. This harmony gives her a frame of society, the best in the world, and an extent of political freedom combined with entire security, and as no other people ever enjoyed upon the face of the earth... In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of life — that is a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill… Such a class you must have, or you would not have the other class which leads progress, refinement and civilization. It constitutes the very mud-sills of society and of political government... Fortunately for the South, she has found a race adapted to that purpose to her hand. A race inferior to herself, but eminently qualified in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity, to stand the climate, to answer all her purposes. We use them for the purpose, and call them slaves. We are old fashioned in the South yet; it is a word discarded now by ears polite; but I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it; it is there; it is everywhere; it is eternal. Northern Laborers are but Slaves.”

— Sen. Hammond, of South Carolina, Pro-Slavery Advocate

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“What is Slavery in the United States? It is a system of personal servitude, under a form of government adopted for the African race, the leading principle of which belongs to every form of government among men. What is that leading principle? It is submission to, and control by the will of another. This is the essential principle of all forms of government; and without it there an be no government... What is government? And what is its origin? Government is control; it is the opposite of freedom, or a right to do as we please. It is power to compel obedience to the will of a superior. Where did it originate? It originated in the will of God... Government must begin in absolute despotism, instead of absolute freedom... The principle of subordination sought to be overthrown, is vital in church and state. The infidel principle of ‘freedom and equality’ sought to be established on its ruins, is unknown to the Bible, contradicted by all experience, and subversive of all government among men... One teaches ‘freedom and equality;’ the other teaches inequality and subordination. One leads to anarchy—the other to order. One leads to love—the other to hatred. One leads to war—the other to peace. Either liberty, or civilization, or both, must die when the world is subjected to the control of their leading principle of ‘freedom and equality’ among men. It is self destroying when adopted, and seeks to destroy all governments which do not recognize it.”

— Thornton Stringfellow, Pro-Slavery Advocate

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“Domestic servitude, as we define and defend it, is but civil government in one of its forms.
All government is restraint; and this is but one form of restraint.”

— Robert Lewis Dabney, Pro-Slavery Advocate​​​​​​​​​

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Justifications Commonly Used for Slavery: Slavery is natural – Government is natural; Slavery has always existed – Government has always existed; Every society has Slavery – Every society has Government; Where the common people are free, they are even worse off than slaves – Where the common people have no government, they are much worse off; Without Slavery, the former slaves would cause chaos and other evils – Without Government, the people would cause chaos and other evils; Trying to get rid of Slavery is foolishly Utopian and impractical – Trying to get rid of Government is foolishly Utopian and impractical; Forget abolition, a far better plan is to keep the slaves sufficiently well fed, clothed, housed, entertained, taking their minds off exploitation - Forget anarchy, a far better plan is to keep the slaves sufficiently well fed, clothed, housed, entertained, etc.; Without Slavery, who will pick the cotton – Without Government, who will build the roads; There will be slavery anyways – There will be Government anyways; The slaves can go to a better plantation – The people can go to a better government; We can change who runs the plantation or how it runs, so that the slaves have more freedom – We can change the leaders or the laws, so that the people have more freedom

 

4) The history, methods and foundations of governments or political states can be traced back seemingly directly to the history, methods and foundations of slavery. ​

 

Looking at human history, BC (Before Christ) and BCE (Before Common Era) are the same, counting down before the year “1.” AD (Anno Domini) and CE (Common Era) are the same, counting up after the year “1.” BP (Before Present) counts before the year 1950 AD/CE. Humans supposedly first appeared on earth around 300,000 years ago in the Middle Paleolithic Stone Age, which was from 300,000 BP to 50,000 BP. The first and oldest formal government was known as the Sumerian Empire or Ancient Mesopotamia, first settled between around 4500-4000 BC. This is also when systemic slavery was officially first established, specifically known as an “established institution." How can the “established institution” of chattel slavery be created without a system of mass violence in place that allows it? (refer back to statistic 1) In Sumeria, the "authority" of rulers came from their “divine right to rule” as a “priest class” above government officials or merchants as the middle class, with slaves or farmers as the base class. How does someone obtain the “right to rule” and does that fit how we view “rights” and voluntaryism or morality? Slavery was practiced in every ancient civilization known thereafter Sumeria. The oldest law codes of these ancient empires often convince their populous about the legitimacy of their system, the need for masters and slaves, proclaiming to be of “equity” and “truth” as it says in the law code of Ur-Nammu, or "to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak” as it says in the law code of Hammurabi. How can these law codes claim to enforce good in the world, while they are actively partaking in evil? What if this type of deception is intentional? These same ancient empires would tell their slaves what their rights are and deciding upon their own whims, what their punishments are to be; they even had systems in place where the slave can work for their freedom, which would be granted to them by their master, known as manumission or enfranchisement. Is having less freedom or more freedom, actually freedom? How does this relate to Mental Slavery?

 

People may correlate slavery with the growth in population, however this disregards our study on the nature of slavery, including why people are willing to put up with it despite knowing how immoral it is or how they wouldn’t want it done to themself. When we are able to look at the amassed reasons —the disregard and lack of self-ownership morality, the idea that might makes right, the focus on centralization and collectivism (justifications and deceptions made to violate individual rights), the result of war or the monopoly on violence, the obedience to presumed and claimed “authority” or even the growth of mass agriculture and industry, our “detachment” from source, with all these reasons contributing to malnourishment, poverty and disease— we can come to understand why the slave felt powerless or needing to accept their condition, or why the master felt powerful and doing everything to keep their condition. Such imbalances keep crashing down, but quickly become imbalanced again since as 16th century writer Etienne de la Boetie says, “people tend to enslave themselves.”

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Short Quote Compilation: “That one set of men should be slaves to another. This truth was as old as it was universal. It was recognized in every history, under every government” (Thomas Clarkson, Abolitionist)​. “’You must not disturb my authority, because it was ordained by God that I should rule,’ said the king. ‘Slavery is a divine institution,’ protested the Southern planter.” (19th-20th Century "Liberty" Newspaper). “As in every instance in history, the pattern of tyranny repeats itself by reinventing lies to hide the same slavery.” (Jeremey Locke, Author). “These conquerors were the first legislators. By an almost uninterrupted succession, the power of legislation has continued in the hands of their descendants to the present day. If other conquerors have on some occasions overcome them, it has only been to succeed to their places... ‘Almost all governments,’ Hume correctly observes, ‘which exist at present, or of which there remains any record, have been founded originally on usurpation or conquest, or both.’" (Thomas Hodgskin, Philosopher).​ “In the dawn of civilisation, we find the bulk of the people in a state of absolute bondage, and even those who supposed themselves to be the independent classes, subject to a most rigorous despotism." (Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Philosopher). “Slaves to its priests, and through the priests to the king. It was the best friend a king could have, and the most dependable... They rob the natives of their cattle under the pretext that all the cattle in the country belonged to the king whom they have tricked and assassinated. They issue ‘regulations’ requiring the incensed and harassed natives to work for the white settlers, and neglect their own affairs to do it. This is slavery” (Mark Twain, Author, Abolitionist). “The origin of society and law, which bound new fetters on the poor, and gave new powers to the rich; which irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, eternally fixed the law of property and inequality, converted clever usurpation into unalterable right, and, for the advantage of a few ambitious individuals, subjected all mankind to perpetual labour, slavery and wretchedness" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher). “The following points have been established: 1. All human governments have been invested with the war-making power. 2. All human governments have considered war power essential to their existence. The proof of this is found in the theory and practice of every government that is or has been." (Henry Clarke Wright, Abolitionist). “The oppressors being less numerous than the oppressed it was necessary to perfect the science of oppression, in order to support this false equilibrium. The art of governing became the art of subjecting the many to the few.” (C.F. Volney, Abolitionist). “Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it? There was a time when the division of mankind into two classes, a small one of masters and a numerous one of slaves, appeared, even to the most cultivated minds, to be a natural, and the only natural, condition of the human race." (John Stuart Mill, Philosopher). "1. Slavery is said to arise from captivity in war... Secondly, slavery may begin, by one man's selling himself to another... Third, that men may be born slaves, by being the children of slaves." (John Wesley, Abolitionist & Judge Blackstone; conquest further detailed by Thomas Phillips, Thomas Lediard and Sir Hans Sloan). “The difficulty of being able to make use of a very large number of slaves in countries which were beginning to be relatively thickly settled, gradually led the victors to permit the conquered people to continue to occupy their lands, on condition that they paid an annual tribute. It was thus that the Romans spread their dominion over the ancient world and sowed the seeds of the Feudal System.” (Francis Dashwood Tandy, Philosopher). Governments and Laws are Instituted with primary reference to its creation, protection and enjoyment. It introduced human slavery as an instrument in its production.” (Edward Carpenter, Philosopher). “Under how many subtilties or absurdities has the divine right to govern been imposed on the credulity of mankind?” (Thomas Paine, American Independence). “The conqueror now became interested in protecting his sources of supply, and began to devise systems for the better exploitation of territories and of the populations which were enslaved. These systems are the first Political States” (Gustave de Molinari, Philosopher). “Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest" (Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist). “Those who bid you use force are merely using language of the same kind as every blood-stained ruler has used in the past, the language of those who paid their troops by pillage, the language of the war-loving German general, who in old days looked down from the heights surrounding Paris, and whispered with a gentle sigh 'What a city to sack!' It is the language of those who through all the past history of the world have believed in the right of conquering, in the right of making slaves" (Auberon Herbert, Philosopher). "Antiquity presents everywhere — in Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome — the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige of force and of fraud. But this does not prove that this situation is desirable. It proves only that since men and society are capable of improvement, it is naturally to be expected that error, ignorance, despotism, slavery, and superstition should be greatest towards the origins of history." (Frederick Bastiat, Philosopher). "All the great governments of Europe, except England, claimed to exist by what was called 'Divine Right.' That is, they claimed to have received authority from God Himself, to rule over their people. And they taught, and a servile and corrupt priesthood taught, that it was a religious duty of the people to obey them." (Lysander Spooner, Abolitionist). “If the sword of the soldier makes the multitude physical slaves, the catechism of the priest,—a weapon far more dangerous,—makes them moral slaves.” (Joseph Dejacque, Abolitionist). "The brutal fact of brigandage, conquest, and slavery, the material and real base of all States, past and present, has always preceded the idealization of this fact by some sort of religion and legislation." (Mikhail Bakunin, Philosopher). “War has hitherto been found the inseparable ally of political institution. The earliest records of time are the annals of conquerors and heroes, a Bacchus, a Sesostris, a Semiramis and a Cyrus." (William Godwin, Philosopher).

 

Some Psychological Insights: “The State has taken the place of God; that is why, seen from this angle, the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship." (Carl Jung, Psychologist). “Autocracy presupposes inferiority of nature on the part of both ruler and subject: on the one side a cold, unsympathetic sacrificing of other’s wills to self-will; on the other side a mean, cowardly abandonment of the claims of manhood. Our very language bears testimony to this. Do not dignity, independence, and other words of approbation, imply a nature at variance with this relation? Are not tyrannical, arbitrary, despotic, epithets of reproach? and are not truckling, fawning, cringing, epithets of contempt? Is not slavish a condemnatory term? Does not servile, that is, serf-like, imply littleness, meanness? And has not the word villain, which originally meant bondsman, come to signify everything which is hateful? That language should thus inadvertently embody dislike for those who most display the instinct of subordination, is alone sufficient proof that this instinct is associated with evil dispositions. It has been the parent of countless crimes. It is answerable for the torturing and murder of the noble-minded who would not submit—for the horrors of Bastiles and Siberias. It has ever been the repressor of knowledge, of free thought, of true progress... All the barbarisms of the past have their types in the present. All the barbarisms of the past grew out of certain dispositions: those dispositions may be weakened, but they are not extinct; and so long as they exist there must be manifestations of them. What we commonly understand by command and obedience, are the modern forms of bygone despotism and slavery... To whatever extent the will of the one is overborne by the will of the other, to that extent the parties are tyrant and slave.” (Herbert Spencer, Psychologist)

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The Concern of other forms of Slavery

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As of 2024, it hasn’t been more than 80 years since millions of people fought for the commands of “authority” unleashing massive bloodshed in World War 2, not more than 100 years since different races have been recognized as equal to one another through the Civil Rights Movement, not more than 200 years since we recognized chattel slavery as wrong through the Abolitionist Movement, and not more than 300 years since people have recognized the monarchy as fallacious through American Revolutionaries. In different parts of the world, they still have to come to some of these realizations. To say we have evolved to understand who we really are without any slavery present may be profoundly ignorant, especially if slavery exists mentally and upon the foundations of civilization. However, through all the different forms of slavery that may exist, the mental and physical form remains as the base; the more this is fully understood in any given populace, especially the root Mental Slavery form of Statism, the more we may prevent or abolish slavery in totality. Four commonly touted more-obscure forms of slavery includes the topic of prisons (for which chattel slavery is openly practiced as punishment for crime), military (ie. draft), economics and technology.

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Economic Slavery:

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It is said among voluntaryists who study economics, that when a government is able to control what businesses can or cannot do, giving privileges and handouts to certain businesses or sabotaging other businesses (ex. Raw Milk industry, taxation, regulation, incentives, tariffs, etc.), they crush competition in an otherwise free market, therefore enabling monopolies and reducing the voluntary solutions that could help innovate society. An example is Abolitionist Lysander Spooner, who would attempt to open his own American Postal Service, and he even argued that he broke no laws in the process since he was a lawyer, yet the government shut down his business in order to maintain their monopoly with the U.S. Postal Service. Despite this, the price of postal stamps went down because he was able to provide competition. A monopoly, more specifically defined, is when there exists only one supplier for a type of commodity, creating dependency. Many will actually define government as what creates monopolies (ex. Austrian Economics) or as a monopoly on legitimized violence by it's very nature (ex. Max Stirner, Leo Tolstoy, Max Weber). Similarly, it is also said that the only lasting cartels have been government cartels, referring to collusion and domination in markets. There wouldn’t be a “black market” if it weren’t for the controlled market. The Taoist term “spontaneous order” is also an economic term, in sharing the idea of laissez faire which translates to “leave people alone to do as they wish,” or that with demand, there will be supply, and therefore order will manifest itself by allowing the market and people to voluntarily negotiate and trade.

 

“No man is a slave because he gets his wages, though many men are slaves because they do not get their wages. As far as freedom is concerned, there is no difference between the man who produces for unknown parties on problematical terms, working with his own tools at his own risk, and the man who produces for known parties on specified terms, working with their tools at their risk. Both of these are wage systems, and there is no other system. Where there is monopoly, both are slave systems; where there is no monopoly, neither is a slave system. The one condition essential to the rightfulness of both is the absence of the usurer, whose sole function is to secrete for his own benefit a portion of the laborer’s wages... governments set men against men and classes against classes by their favoritism, system of privileges, and special opportunities. This artificial inequality gives rise to class prejudices, jealousy, hatred, and discord. It tempts and forces some to commit crimes, while it reduces others to abject slavery. Thus it gradually undermines society. Soon comes revolution, and a civilization is in ruins. The modern conflict between the rich and the poor could not exist but for the State, which feeds on strife and strengthened in war. A solution of the labor problem would involve a dissolution of the State. For all that is required to such solution is State non-interference. Labor would reap its full reward, if the States did not furnish a special class of people with weapons and means whereby the latter is enabled to enslave and plunder the former. The State produces nothing and possesses nothing. If it is seen to give something to anybody, that must have been taken forcibly or fraudulently from somebody else.”

— Benjamin Tucker, 20th Century Voluntaryist

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“What is essential to the idea of a slave? We primarily think of him as one who is owned by another. To be more than nominal, however, the ownership must be shown by control of the slave’s actions—a control which is habitually for the benefit of the controller. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy another’s desires. The relation admits of sundry gradations. Remembering that originally the slave is a prisoner whose life is at the mercy of his captor, it suffices here to note that there is a harsh form of slavery in which, treated as an animal, he has to expend his entire effort for his owner’s advantage. Under a system less harsh, though occupied chiefly in working for his owner, he is allowed a short time in which to work for himself, and some ground on which to grow extra food. A further amelioration gives him power to sell the produce of his plot and keep the proceeds. Then we come to the still more moderated form which commonly arises where, having been a free man working on his own land, conquest turns him into what we distinguish as a serf; and he has to give to his owner each year a fixed amount of labour or produce, or both: retaining the rest himself. Finally, in some cases... he is allowed to leave his owner’s estate and work or trade for himself elsewhere, under the condition that he shall pay an annual sum. What is it which, in these cases, leads us to qualify our conception of the slavery as more or less severe? Evidently the greater or smaller extent to which effort is compulsorily expended for the benefit of another instead of for self-benefit. If all the slave’s labour is for his owner the slavery is heavy, and if but little it is light. Take now a further step. Suppose an owner dies, and his estate with its slaves comes into the hands of trustees; or suppose the estate and everything on it to be bought by a company; is the condition of the slave any the better if the amount of his compulsory labour remains the same? Suppose that for a company we substitute the community; does it make any difference to the slave if the time he has to work for others is as great, and the time left for himself is as small, as before? The essential question is—How much is he compelled to labour for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labour for his own benefit? The degree of his slavery varies according to the ratio between that which he is forced to yield up and that which he is allowed to retain; and it matters not whether his master is a single person or a society. If, without option, he has to labour for the society, and receives from the general stock such portion as the society awards him, he becomes a slave to the society."

— Herbert Spencer, Psychologist

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Military Slavery:

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“Men are persons, not pawns or slaves, and their freedom to reject must never be overborne by force whether or violence or of bribery or of the supernatural... Military efficiency demands extreme concentration of power, a high degree of centralization, the training of the masses in passive obedience to their superiors, the imposition of some form of conscription or slavery to the state, and the creation of a local idolatry with the nation or a semi-deified tyrant as the object of worship... In any future war there will be, not merely military conscription, but also industrial, intellectual and moral conscription: and the whole population, women, children and the aged, as well as men, will be subjected to this State-imposed slavery.”

— Aldous Huxley, Author

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“What characterizes the slave is this, that he is in the hands of his master like a chattel, a tool, and no longer a man. Just so it is with a soldier, an officer, a general, who march to murder and to death without any care as to justice, by the arbitrary will of ministers... Thus military slavery exists, and it is the worst of slaveries, particularly now, when by means of enforced military service it puts the chain about the necks of all free and strong men of the nations, in order to make of them tools of murder, killers by profession, butchers of human flesh”

— Abbe Defourny, Philosopher

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“For centuries the State has committed mass murder and called it ‘war’; then ennobled the mass slaughter that ‘war’ involves. For centuries the State has enslaved people into armed battalions and called it ‘conscription’ in the ‘national service.’ For centuries the State has robbed people at bayonet point and called it ‘taxation.’”

— Murray Rothbard, Philosopher

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Technological Slavery or Technocracy (may include Medical Slavery):

 

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude... Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war—in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.” About 20% of people are easily hypnotized, while 20% are very difficult, if not impossible, to hypnotize. The remaining 60%, the majority, can be gradually hypnotized if you work hard enough at it."

— Aldous Huxley, Author

 

“Artificial intelligence will do more and more of human thinking until human thinking as we know it now will be negligible. Now, I'd like someone to define a more extreme level of slavery than to have your entire perceptual processes externally controlled and dictated so that you not only have your body enslaved you have your mind enslaved and you know, when we talk about slavery, enslaving the mind is the whole foundation of it... People won't even have their opinions manipulated or their opinions silenced, they will be given their opinions through AI’s connection to the brain.” This is “the ultimate slavery.”

— David Icke, Philosopher

 

“The growth of technology may confuse man's struggle for mental maturity. The practical application of science and tools originally were meant to give man more security against outside physical forces. It safeguarded his inner world; it freed time and energy for meditation, concentration, play, and creative thinking. Gradually the very tools man made took possession of him and pushed him back into serfdom instead of toward liberation. Man became drunk with technical skill; he became a technology addict. Technology calls forth from people, unknown to themselves, an infantile, servile attitude. We have nearly all become slaves of our cars. Technical security paradoxically may increase cowardice. There is almost no challenge any more to face the forces of nature outside us and the forces of instinct within us. Because the very technical world has become for us that magical challenge which nature originally afforded.” In regards to "the future age of psychology," "many of the victims of thought control, brainwashing, and menticide that we have talked about were strong men whose minds and wills were broken and degraded... Compared with the million-year span of human existence and evolution, civilization is still in its infancy."

— Joost Meerloo, Psychoanalyst

 

"The Internet of Bio-Nano Things refers to a network of biological and nanoscale devices that can collect, process, and transmit data within biological environments. IoBNT relies on biomolecular communication, inspired by natural biological processes. This communication method encodes information into molecules, which are then transmitted through biological mediums like the bloodstream. To connect the biochemical domain of IoBNT with conventional electronic networks, bio-cyber interfaces are crucial. These interfaces enable the translation of biological signals into electronic ones and vice versa. In application: Intra-body sensing and Actuation: Networks of nano-sensors within the human body for continuous health monitoring and targeted drug delivery. Environmental monitoring: Engineered bacteria networks for detecting chemical agents or pollutants in various environments. Smart Drug Delivery: Theranostic systems that can be remotely monitored and controlled for precise medication administration. IoBNT could potentially be used to create more sophisticated biological weapons: Targeted Delivery, Stealth Capabilities, Covert Surveillance, Mind Control (Cognitive and Behavioral Modification), Biological Hacking (Data Theft, Hijacking Bodily Functions). Weaponized living electrodes in military applications could potentially be used in concerning ways (more specific examples): Neural control: Living electrodes could potentially be used to directly interface with and manipulate a person's nervous system, potentially allowing for forced behavior modification or control of motor functions. Covert surveillance: Microscopic living electrode systems could theoretically be used to secretly monitor neural activity and extract information directly from a person's brain without their knowledge or consent. Enhanced interrogation: Living electrodes might be exploited to induce pain or manipulate sensory experiences as a form of torture or coercion. Cognitive enhancement: Soldiers could potentially have their cognitive or physical abilities artificially augmented beyond normal human limits. Biological hacking: Living electrodes integrated into biological systems could potentially be used to hijack or disrupt normal physiological processes."

Based on work from Psychologist Mattias Desmet, Technocracy & Totalitarianism: "Main factors that link the two: The belief that human intellect can guide society, aims to create utopian society led by experts, subordinates individual to collective, manifested in Nazism and Stalinism historically, present as undercurrent in modern society, appeals through promise of artificial paradise, imposes control based on anxiety and necessity, pushes for technological solutions and control, presents itself as pinnacle of rationality and science, ignores human need for privacy and autonomy, fails to account for complex or interconnected nature of reality, contrasts with mystical views of science's founders. The alternative is accepting uncertainty, fostering creativity and individuality."

— Health Revealed Slides 161-162

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