abolition

This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other "brave words" of our bourgeoisie about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.

It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.

But don't wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc.

Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.

Second, he analyses a series of major abolitions and argues that in no case were they influenced by slave resistance.

One of the sources of debate is the connection of the abolition movement to nineteenth-century imperialism, a topic' linked to a 65-year exchange on Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery.

It emerged from a series of lectures at Cambridge University which in Peterson's words 'was conceived as a contrarian effort to challenge the self-congratulatory frame in which the bicentenary of the Abolition Act was being cast' (p.

On 25 March, Africans from around the globe came together to commemorate the bicentennial celebration of Britain's abolition of the slave trade.

The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was enacted on 25 March 1807 by the British, one of the principal European powers that developed this iniquitous practice.

This crime benefited the slave owners, slave traders and rent-seeking institutions which strongly opposed its abolition. All the colonial empires and institutions drew on African slave labour to build their infrastructure and enhance their productive capacities.