The purpose of this form of society was unsocial.
Under this form of society the masters were in legal possession of the means of production and also of the forts, courts, and legislatures (such as existed); and were thus in perfect position to defend and extend their industrial robbery.
The chattel slave owners were thus parasites, aggressive social parasites.
That is admitted.[[308]]
(2) Serfdom, common in Europe only a hundred years ago, was also a class-labor system—an organized, legalized opportunity for wholesale class robbery; and under that form of class-labor system, with class robbery legally arranged for, class robbery was, of course respectable, profitable and easy—and therefore inevitable.
Peace was impossible.
The purpose of this form of society was unsocial.
Under this form the masters were still in legal possession of the means of production and also of the forts, courts and legislatures, and were thus in perfect position to defend and extend their industrial robbery.
The landlords-and-masters of the ancient serfs were thus also parasites, aggressive social parasites.
That is admitted.