The Imprint of Western Barbarism on Its Legal Order | The Legal Architecture of Bondage: From Roman Dominium to Modern Western National Slavocracy—Capitalist National Chattel Slavery
By Direct Democratic Communist Confederation To understand the true nature of modern capitalist society, one must trace the legal lineage of property and personhood from Roman law to the present. This analysis reveals that the nineteenth-century abolition of chattel slavery did not dismantle the institution of human bondage. Instead, through a process of nationalization and financialization, slavery was consolidated and embedded more deeply within the framework of Western law and order. The Roman Foundation: Dominium and the Objectification of Humans The conceptual root of this system lies in Roman law's definition of property, specifically the concept of summum dominium (absolute ownership). Under this regime, property was not merely a right to use something, but a right to abuse, destroy, or alienate it completely, to the exclusion of all others. This legal framework divided the world into two stark categories: persons (legal subjects with rights) and things (res, legal objects w...