How do you define slavery as not to include socialism? As a writer, when I was up to writing, I used slavery to solve some problems. The truth may be that I was too lazy to come up with a better solution. I had to explain how my characters could survive in their worlds without some basic functions that the rest of us have to worry about. If you have been reading much of my stand up philosophy then you know of the shallowness of my thinking enough to understand my solution.
Under socialism, you are reducing adults to the level of children, appropriating their labor and providing for their needs as you determine what their needs are. You do this for their own good. There is no intentional evil worse than the tyranny of good intentions. A tyranny of good intentions mandates painful sacrifices on the side of the tyrant that the tyrant would not endure if his desire was to the comfort of his own evil ends. Honestly trying to help people, assuming that you know what is in their best interests even if they disagree with you, makes it possible for you to overlook the uncomfortable truth that everybody else can see.
If you only use the term in passing, you can make slavery seem like a good thing. Slaves may be mistreated and they lack both liberty and control over their own lives; however, they are also free from the concerns of adult life. It is the master’s job to feed, house and clothe the slave. When your honest goal is to make the slave’s life comfortable, then you ask little of the slave. Such comfortable enslavement crushes the human spirit when it overcomes his desire to become more in life than he was in his childhood.
Workers are the utilitarian equivalent of serfs. Where serfs are human, workers are simple units of labor. When a worker ceases to provide a service, the utilitarian ethic is to humanely euthanize him. Why should resources be expended on maintaining any labor unit which provides nothing to the collective? Resources will always be limited and socialism, while preached as the champion of the poor, is built upon hatred of the rich.
Can socialism be defined as to remove it from slavery? I really do not think so. When you know the language of socialism, then you can explain all of the benefits of slavery. Slaves need masters. People who see it coming can be talked into socialism with the simple belief that they will be part of the elite class of masters over the slaves of socialism.

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