Is there still a slave country in the world today?

Strictly speaking, there is no slave country in today's world. Mauritania is the last country in the world to abolish slavery. Since 198 1, Mauritania has tried to abolish slavery three times, most recently in 2007, but all failed. Although the state has formulated strict laws-those who own slaves will be sentenced to 10 years in prison; Those who advocate slavery will be sentenced to two years in prison-but according to the data of the United Nations, there are still 10% to 20% of the population in the country who are slaves.

First, the causes of slavery:

In the process of inheriting and developing historical materialism, the theory of bipolar world points out that after the invention of agriculture, the competitive relationship based on land has become the main driving force for the evolution of human society. After the land-based annexation war between tribes reached a certain scale, the slave class, slave owner class and slave country came into being.

Second, the basic characteristics of slave countries:

The economic basis of a slave society is that slave owners possess the means of production and are slaves of production workers, and slaves are just talking tools. In addition to the slave owners and slave classes, there are also freedmen classes, whose status is higher than that of slaves, but they are also exploited by slave owners. This economic foundation determines that the slave country is the dictatorship of the economically dominant slave owner class over the ruled class. The ruling style is mainly extremely cruel and violent. This is bound to provoke a slave uprising. In ancient Rome, after the slave uprising led by Spartacus was suppressed, the living slave army was severely punished, and 6,000 captured slave troops were crucified alive.

In addition to violence, slave countries also used religious superstitions to rule slaves and freemen. Religion plays an important role, temples have a lot of property, and priests occupy a prominent position in state organs.

Third, the form of slavery state rule:

In the form of rule, due to different levels of productivity and ownership of the means of production, slave countries have different forms of rule. The eastern slave countries practiced monarchy, and all state power belonged to hereditary monarch in form. Athens, Greece implements "direct democracy", and public officials are mainly elected and drawn by the "citizens' assembly" attended by slave owners and freemen. Ancient Rome and Sparta practiced aristocratic system, and the Senate (ancient Rome) and Presbyterian church (Sparta) composed of nobles held important power. But whether it is monarchy, aristocracy or so-called democracy, its essence is the class dictatorship of slave owners over slaves.