Editing Slavery (section)

=== Other uses of the term ===
The word ''slavery'' is often used as a pejorative to describe any activity in which one is coerced into performing. Some argue that [[Conscription#Military slavery|military drafts]] and other forms of coerced government labour constitute "state-operated slavery."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2346 |title=An Idea Not Worth Drafting: Conscription is Slavery |first=Peter |last=Krembs |date=January 20, 2003 |publisher=Capmag.com |access-date=September 29, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.davidkopel.com/NRO/2001/Nationalized-Slavery.htm |title=Nationalized Slavery; A policy Italy should dump |website=davidkopel.com |author-link=Dave Kopel |first=Dave |last=Kopel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012125652/http://www.davidkopel.com/NRO/2001/Nationalized-Slavery.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2007}}. Refers to both the military and [[national service]] requirements of Italy as slavery</ref> Some [[libertarianism|libertarians]] and [[anarcho-capitalism|anarcho-capitalists]] view government taxation as a form of slavery.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mises.org/library/tax-slavery |last=Machan |first=Tibor R. |title=Tax Slavery |publisher=[[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] |date=April 13, 2000 |access-date=October 9, 2006 }}</ref>

"Slavery" has been used by some [[Antipsychiatry|anti-psychiatry]] proponents to define involuntary psychiatric patients, claiming there are no unbiased physical tests for mental illness and yet the psychiatric patient must follow the orders of the psychiatrist. They assert that instead of chains to control the slave, the psychiatrist uses drugs to control the mind.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Elliot |last1=Valenstein |title=Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=fBxyTAEiSUIC|page=26}} |date= 2002 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-0-7432-3787-1 |page=26}}</ref> [[Drapetomania]] was a pseudoscientific psychiatric diagnosis for a slave who desired freedom; "symptoms" included laziness and the tendency to flee captivity.<ref>{{cite book |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=3OeefBqX7ggC}} |title=Psychiatric Slavery |first=Thomas Stephen |last=Szasz |author-link=Thomas Stephen Szasz |via=Google Books |access-date=September 29, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schaler |first1=J. A. |year=2003 |title=Slavery and psychiatry |journal=[[British Journal of Psychiatry]] |volume=183 |pages=77–78 |doi=10.1192/bjp.183.1.77-a|pmid=12835252 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Some proponents of [[animal rights]] have applied the term ''slavery'' to the condition of some or all human-owned animals, arguing that their status is comparable to that of human slaves.<ref name="MSpiegel">{{cite book |last=Spiegel |first=Marjorie |title=The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery |location=New York |publisher=Mirror Books |year=1996}}</ref>

The labour market, as institutionalized under contemporary capitalist systems, has been criticized by mainstream [[Socialism|socialists]] and by [[anarcho-syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalists]], who utilise the term [[wage slavery]] as a [[pejorative]] or [[dysphemism]] for [[wage labour]].<ref>For sources about the concept of ''"wage slavery"'' and its various interpretations, see {{cite encyclopedia |title=wage slave |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/wage-slave |dictionary=dictionary.com |access-date=March 4, 2013 }}</ref>{{sfn|Ellerman|1992}}<ref name="merriam-webster.com">{{cite web |title= wage slave |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave |publisher=merriam-webster.com |access-date=March 4, 2013 }}</ref> Socialists draw parallels between the trade of labour as a commodity and slavery. [[Cicero]] is also known to have suggested such parallels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Constitution Society – Advocates and enforcers of the U.S. and State Constitutions |url=https://constitution.org/ |access-date=February 6, 2021 |quote=...vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221014338/https://constitution.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>