Abolizionismo 1.2: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

:When the General States declared themselves the National Assembly, they claimed sovereignty for them as incorporation of the nation. Sovereignty passed from being royal of the type The State am I to national of the type We Are the Nation. Liberation from the repressive powers of the State passed from being individual luck and royal capriciousness to a right of the people to be freed of unnecessary infringements of their liberties. One of the first actions of the new National Assembly was the abolition of the lettres de cachet and the lettres d abolition. Notabene, Napoleon reactivated them in 1801 under the name of prison d’état. The question was and is, of course, which kinds of domination are despotic, and which are not. Montesquieu, in 1721, already gave an answer that was hard to chew, saying that all laws, and all acts of government, that were not justified by sheer necessity, were despotic. From this, Beccaria had derived his programme to abolish the death penalty and torture altogether. Some monarchs were convinced he was right, at his time, and others werde not. The conflict is not over today yet. Dick Cheney could not be convinced until this very day.

Artikel 4 der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte lautet:

"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms."

Die Abolition erfolgte nicht aus wirtschaftlichen, sondern aus politischen und moralischen Gründen. Anders als die Marxisten dachten, steht der Kapitalismus keineswegs in einem grundlegenden Gegensatz zur Sklaverei. Vielmehr zeigt die Geschichte des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels, wohin die Reise gehen kann, wenn Marktkräften freier Lauf gelassen wird.

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