Talk:Involuntary servitude

• Is there a definition for 'voluntary servitude'?
• What separates voluntary from involuntary servitude?
• Is a stop loss objector in voluntary military service an example of involuntary servitude?
• Is compulsory jury duty involuntary servitude?

Could we delete the irrelevant reference to the Libertarian party? 74.251.36.141 01:22, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Definition insufficient

This definition is insufficient, as, from the Marxist point of view, for one example, it does not differentiate between servitude and capitalist free labor. Let's see: Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion applies also to all capitalist free work. Most people in the free world labores against that person's will (i.e., they would not be working in that field if they were millonaires); every worker in the world benefits other people (i.e., the owner of the bussiness); and most people work for economic coercion (i.e., they are forced because they need money).--Againme (talk) 16:13, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

miltary service of men-only is violation

If military service is duty to the country by its citizens, then it must apply equally to both men and women. By contrapositive, if only men are required to serve, then it is *not* a duty of citizenship per se, rather it's a specific involuntary servitude of specific classes of people in violation of the 13th amendment. 198.144.192.45 (talk) 21:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)

Some argue that on sociological grounds (see e.g., this). Ithas also been argued on legal grounds (see e.g. this). This also discusses gender and conscription. Other relevant sources no doubt exist. Perhaps this article and/or the article on conscription should contain some info on that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:55, 31 March 2010 (UTC)