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The Neo-Abolitionist Case Against Renting People

January 17, 2015 by admin

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These are the slides from a talk given January 14, 2015 for the Economic Democracy Project of the Graduate Center for Worker Education of the CUNY/Brooklyn College. The talk presents the arguments from inalienable rights theory in a neo-abolitionist framework as making the case against the renting of people, i.e., against the employment relation–echoing the abolitionist case against the owning of people.

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Filed Under: Democratic Firm, Inalienable Rights Tagged With: charter cities, democratic theory, Inalienable rights, labor theory of property, Responsibility Principle, seasteading, workplace democracy

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