Economic Suicide

Slavery and the Value of Labor: Adam Smith

Adam Smith was an economic philosopher from England and considered the patron saint of European Capitalist thought. He was also an opponent of the enslavement of Africans in America and Europe. However, he was not opposed to our enslavement for moral or noble reasons. He was opposed to slavery because he thought it was inefficient in the capitalist world. He believed Africans should be paid for our labor so that we could buy European goods. That was his sole argument. He did not like the idea that such a large population could not be consumers because slaves were not allowed the ability to earn money. What does this mean? It means that the only reason why it was acceptable for you and I not to be enslaved is so that we could feed the economic system of white supremacy better and more efficiently. Moreover, what are Black people now? The biggest one-dimensional pure consumers the world has ever seen. The slavery relationship is still the same. If you work a job that pays you ten dollars per hour and you pay $150.00 to Tommy Hilfiger for his jeans, you have effectively given 15 hours of your labor to Tommy Hilfiger. You worked 15 hours for him. When are you going to work for yourself and your people, by purchasing Black goods and services with your labor hours? Tommy Hilfiger and company do not even have to whip us anymore to turn over our labor to him. He is still economically violent, and we are still bleeding.

Lesson:

In your economic life, if you are not buying from you own people first, and then you are committing suicide on many levels and enlisting for slavery and zombification. Buy Black with no apology and if you have to buy from others, try to make sure it is a bootleg. Never pay full price for anything from others-especially those who have historically and continue to benefit from your underdevelopment. For in fact, our relationship is dialectical to our oppressors. Their development is dependent on our underdevelopment. Have you committed economic violence /self-hate today? Thanks George McLean, for this article.