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Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

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Wage Labor - Is Nobody a Slave?

Nobody is a slave, just so long as they own their own labor power and can use it as they see fit. And ther're some really important legal cases that kind of slowly, kind of elop this into a kind of lase fair republicanism. But any claim that the wage laborer is unfree involves a radical over extension of the thirteenth amendment,. It involves an unreasonable interpretation of wage labor. Every one can be free, regardless of race,just so long as there owners of their own power and can sell it in whatever labor contract they want.

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