Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct.… - George Fitzhugh

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Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.

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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Slavery is a form of communism… The manner to which the change shall be made from the present form of society to that system of communism which we propose is very simple.

The negro is improvident; will not lay up in summer for the wants of winter; will not accumulate in youth for the exigencies of age. He would become an insufferable burden to society. Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery.

The bestowing upon men equality of rights, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequalities of condition.

Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government. - George Fitzhugh

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