I am trying to understand how the slavery systems of the world function and how those who use slave labor and sell people into slavery justify their doings. I guess most slavery systems are not questioned at all, the unjustice and suffering is made invisible by all kinds of rituals. It is not as slavery is only part of a historical past, it is estimated that right now perhaps up to 27 million people across the world are victims of modern slavery — living in debt bondage, as forced prostitutes and as bonded laborers and between 40 percent and 50 percent of these are children. That estimate does not include members of households and families who live in a slavelike conditions working for the master of the household in a Patriarchy society. The picture is pro-southern cartoon from America telling a story of how slave owners look upon themselves and their treatment of slaves, one can doubt have realistic this self portrait of a slave owner is.
According to Wikipedia most slaves in the world today are debt slaves and number of slaves in the world now is at a historic low. Maybe that is true but maybe organised and institutionalized slavery is invisible because of the present practice of complex financial debt systems and invisible financial networks where production owner is not the colonial farmer but someone who is hiding in a networks of financial transactions of a company owning other company and stationed in some tax haven islets. Maybe the slavery bonds urof today are invisible bonds, bonds made of the tool of the present slave owner to make slavery invisible.
Also one can not understand todays slavery systems without looking at the borders of states and who can became part af a community and migrate freely and work legally where they can find work and who are the hidden people, the illegals, the one that are trafficked across borders and exploited because they have no legal rights, migrant workers without hukou or green cards .
Hukou: A Modern Serfdom in China
Hukou system is a social status system, a kind of bondage on the Chinese peasants
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In China each year 130 million workers are separated from their families. Legislation from January 1958 took away one basic right of chinese citizen, the freedom of internal migration and residence. The system in China of controlling and regulating internal movements of its citizens is powerful. It is outcome of the establisment of command economic system.“
So to understand todays slavery systems one has to look at restrictions of movements by financial systems where people are trapped into situations (debt slavery) where they can not move and the systems societies have to guard who can be member of society and who is an outsider who has to travel without passport, without rights.
It is interesting who and when people break away from slavery, is it by revolutions or is it in a more peaceful way? Slaves are by defination group without powers, can they break the chains by some collaboratory action or does what tricker change came from other players, maybe because the needs of slave owners are changing or the power of slave owners is diminishing ? It is interesting to look at what part the oppressed played in revolutions of the past and analyse revolutions from Spartacus to the German Peasants’ War in 1524-1526 and lots of other peasant revolts . And The russian revolution in 1917.
