The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I by Rosa Luxemburg

Author:Rosa Luxemburg [Luxemburg, Rosa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-84467-975-1
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

INDICATIONS ON THE SCOPE OF SLAVERY

The question of the size of the slave trade in Greece and in the ancient world is generally a point of contention among scholars, economists, and historians.

[Karl Johann] Rodbertus made himself well known for the portrayal of the ancient Greek oikos economy (oikos is the house, the family, together with the bondsmen, maidservants, and slaves).14 With this description, he created the impression that the whole of economic life in the ancient world rested upon slavery. This view was accepted by Professor [Karl] Bücher,15 for whom the first phase of economic development is the closed, household economy, based on slave labor. According to Bücher, this domestic economy predominated up to the Middle Ages.

Recently, Professor Eduard Meyer has strongly contradicted this view. Two works by him can be recommended:

1. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Altertums. Ein Vortrag [(The Economic Development of the Ancient World. A Lecture) (Jena: G. Fischer,] 1895).

2. Die Sklaverei im Altertum [(Slavery in the Ancient World) (Dresden: Zahn & Jaenisch,] 1898).

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