[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

How might you explain the extensive use of slaves in the Gulags of Russia? Given it was essentially a totalitarian/socialistic and eventually a communistic regime, that is the anti-thesis of capitalism.

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/econo...seum/czar3.htm

Wasn't that a case trying to get benefit for the state to balance the cost of keeping those prisoners, rather then taking them prisoner to accomplish the work?