Slavery and Contemplation

Thursday 7th Jan 2010, 8PM in Quick

The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

— Oscar Wilde, The soul of man under Socialism

+ Show Comments (0)