Thomas S. Szasz, M.D. (1920 - 2012) Liberation by Oppression (2002)
A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
1. Psychiatric Slavery: Legal Fiction and the Rhetoric of Therapeutic Oppression
...Today, in advanced societies, labor is plentiful and the state is Croesus: slave-patients are needed to produce work and jobs for others.
...Slavery, as Vice President John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) famously put it, was not an evil, but a “positive good... the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.”