In addition to the answers already here, Southern slave plantation owners controlled the largest swathes of prime agricultural and cotton growing farmland. Almost the only cost of maintaining a slave is food and a little clothing, so as an industry the plantations were essentially self-sufficient just from their own produce. This meant that, as they were not paying money for food and clothing, they could keep prices for food and clothing high, draining money out of the industrializing North.

Capitalists, slightly contrary to other answers here, do actually need to pay their workers - at minimum - enough to reproduce their labor (at least until the extreme short-termism of neoliberalism arises) so high prices for food and clothing means paying workers more, which means setting higher prices for goods to keep the same profit margin, which means being outcompeted in the world commodities market by countries in which food is cheaper.

It's also impossible to mechanize farming on a slave plantation, for the obvious reason that people forced into slavery will gladly sabotage your expensive machines. So, unlike capitalist firms, plantations are not in a race for automation to cut labor costs and outcompete each other - each plantation simply produces as much food as it has land available, which has the effect of preventing the rate of profit for farming as a whole from falling.

To explain: in each particular capitalist field of industry, each firm within it is trying to undercut the others by lowering its prices, which (if it wants to also make profit to spend on future expansion) it can only do by lowering its costs. And as all the firms are buying their input materials on the same market for the same price, the only way to lower costs is to spend less on paying workers - whether by reducing their wages, making them work more for the same wage, or, most significantly for the long term development of capitalism, by replacing them with machines.

Each firm is therefore in a race against the others to automate away as much of the workforce as they possibly can, with steam engines, spinning jennies and every other form of industrial machine - but as we know, profit can only come from the surplus value created by workers, meaning that, as the number of workers in an industry undergoing automation falls, so does the overall rate of profit for that industry.

However, in contrast, farming as a slave-based industry is able to maintain 'ownership' (in every sense) of a far larger fraction of the total number of workers in society - and therefore a much larger fraction of the total surplus value created by society - than farming under capitalism, meaning plantation owners as a class have much greater wealth, relative to industrialists, than they would as owners of farms under capitalism.

But of course, this situation harms the Northern industrialists, because high food prices mean they can't compete on the world market. The logic of capitalism - the logic of the current level of development of the means of production - demands that farming be subject to mechanization. Slavery is outmoded, not because society has reached a higher level of moral and ethical development, but because it interferes with the seeking of maximum profit.

For as long as industries were competing with each other on the same continent, all suffering under the same prices for food, slavery as the primary basis for agriculture could carry on - but as soon as capitalist firms have eaten their local competition and started seeking out new markets on foreign shores, slave-agriculture becomes a fetter on accumulation that Capital must abolish. Under other circumstances, capitalist farms would simply appear and undercut the prices demanded by the plantation owners, but in the US the monopoly that the Southern slavers had over huge tracts of much higher quality farmland in a much better climate made this impossible. So, in the face of these totally incompatible material interests, the only possible outcome was the violent overthrow of the regressive class and the dissolution of their obsolete mode of production.

I wish more German soldiers were punished for shooting Polish people [finger of the monkey's paw curls]

Thank you for your take on the cultural relevance of clowns, "pagliacci the hated"

If it came to that, and some rounding up minorities got domed, this type of guy would be the first to cry out against the use of violence

Was that just casually standing on top of his tank to take a fucking video with his phone?? Of rubble??? In enemy territory????

That's so sick and twisted, only the deranged mind of a clown could come up with an idea like putting a dang cheeto in the White House

The clip that starts at 1:13, with the settler filming from his balcony, seeing a missile hit a couple of kilometers away, then stumbling back into his apartment, pulling back past his telescope, past his enormous TV and into a wide shot of his very nicely furnished apartment...

Firstly, it's fucking sickening to see the luxury that these colonizers are living in next to the destitution of Gaza, even before it had been bombed completely to rubble. And out of his window is an entire street of high-rises presumably packed with apartments just like this one, every one of them occupied (in every sense of the word) with settler colonists here to live like lords on the back of Palestinian misery.

And secondly, this guy is going the fuck home. He's here to live an opulent, carefree life, paid for by limitless free capital forged from the sweat and blood of the colonized, or else as a PMC holocaust technician inventing new and ingenious technologies of terror and oppression for the US Empire - being able to see missile impacts from your own front window suddenly changes that equation, by a lot. And every single person in every single luxurious apartment of those tall, tall tower blocks is doing the exact same math as him, right this very second.

From the Jordan to the Pacific, Palestine will be prolific

No more tiktoks at the beach for this one!

I'm sure she'll be on the next plane home

Their laughable propagandistic 'special military operation'

Our accurate and reasonable 'limited ground incursion'

Damn, guess in the end the prayers ran out

Reminds me of that time a royal navy nuclear submarine was repaired with superglue

Have they considered that this would be antizionist, and therefore antisemitic?

Audio from the Yemeni missile

American hogs are so mouth-frothingly angry all the time that it's easy to point them out, they wear their fascism right on their sleeve. But there's a certain type of central European EU-loving neoliberal who presents this soft and friendly facade, wearing sensible business attire and never raising their voice, who is so rabidly anticommunist and anti-immigrant it would give the ghost of Hitler pause - basically Democrats but intensified in every way.

They are the PMC spreadsheet holocaust technician, peloton fascist, health and wellness, mindfulness meditation, concentration camp builders who are so totally immersed into the 'European identity' that they're indistinguishable from Nazis. They'll explain why Ukraine needs unlimited weapons to deter Russian aggression, but immigrants need to be rounded up and deported or drowned in the Mediterranean, the same way you'd explain to a wayward child that you shouldn't touch the stove - or even with a tone of righteous indignation, 'speaking truth to power' as if they weren't 'the power' and as if they were telling the truth. And then they'll go for a bike ride along one of their many beautiful publicly-funded cycle paths.

They have completely internalized their existence as 'gardeners', the superior enlightened cultural pinnacle of the world (as opposed to the powerful but crude and tacky US), which they earned by just being better than the rest of the world in a way that gives them the right - no, the burden! - to lecture everyone else, especially the people they formerly colonized; after all, Europeans are basically trustworthy and righteous, in a way that no one else can be, because they overthrew Hitler! It's their duty to warn the naive simpletons in Africa and South America against the predations of the kind of dangerous authoritarians that the Europeans defeated, and so have been immunized against - such as those in Asia, who are all sadly pathological due to their culture but with some tough love and Balkanization could maybe one day be guided into the light of liberal democracy.

All of which gives them a totally unassailable sense of moral superiority and inner peace. The garden is blooming, the jungle is walled out, the dictators are chastised and the 'children' are receiving our guidance - all is right with the world. They're like the Eloi, except they're the ones eating people.

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