1 You--the ordinary people, the workers--were their slaves.
2 The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
3 By their labour the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up.
4 Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and overthrow us.
5 He wondered whether she took in washing for a living or was merely the slave of twenty or thirty grandchildren.
6 It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and coloured slaves.
7 In the terms of our earlier classification, the proles are the Low: for the slave population of the equatorial lands who pass constantly from conqueror to conqueror, are not a permanent or necessary part of the structure.
8 Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.
9 The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labour power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.