With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought … - George Fitzhugh

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With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.

George Fitzhugh

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About George Fitzhugh

George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that the negro “is but a grown up child” who needs the economic and social protections of slavery. Fitzhugh decried capitalism as spawning “a war of the rich with the poor, and the poor with one another” – rendering free blacks “far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.”

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Private property destroys liberty and equality.

Socialism, with such despotic head, approaches very near to Southern slavery, and gets along very well so long as the depot lives.

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With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery. - George Fitzhugh

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