Preliminary Topic

One topic that interested me when reading through is the question of whether capitalism is the root cause of slavery and whether or not a Marxist or socialist government is less likely to enact slavery. I find this to be an interesting topic because I can currently go either way on it. On one hand, obviously slavery equals money for those involved, but on the other side of the coin it seems that in practice communism inevitably leads to a ruling class where most people basically become serfs, which isn't all that far from slavery itself.