"Power and domination is not natural to humanity. When you expose power and these forces of domination to the sunlight, it evaporates. No more power. This has been happening since systemic structures of power have existed. If you asked my grandmother whether or not she was oppressed, she wouldn't have known what you were talking about. If you asked my mother, she knew she was oppressed and she resented it. If you ask my daughters, they don't even have to answer you. That's a shift in attitudes over just a few generations. When people talk about how wage slavery will never end, or capitalism will never end, they will. They said the same thing about chattel slavery and feudalism. All forms of domination end. It just takes time and education. It's why, when Emma Goldman argued for anarchism, she said it would take five hundred years to blossom into reality because systems of domination have to be removed first. Labor reformers, particularly the girls in mills, the women of the 19th century, they had no idea what socialism, anarchism, or Marxism were. They weren't educated. They still organized. They wrote that they hadn't faught the Civil War so that they could replace chattel slavery with wage slavery. They regarded wage labor as slavery because if you rent your time for a wage to survive, that is not freedom."
Noam Chomsky, 2009
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