cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17294985
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” - Abraham Lincoln
“I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.” - Abraham Lincoln
“The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.” - Karl Marx
More like “waaah people don’t like me because my entire personality is hating and harassing everyone that isn’t like me”
Party switch. The right opposed all of it.
time to punch some nazis
Currently reading The Demon of Unrest and it’s wild to see how different the party was prior to the electoral cleave. One nice thing, I bet the ghost of the Chivalry are very unhappy that “their people” are now Republicans.
*northern republicans.
The slavery thing was always more north vs south, Southern republicans were very much in favor of slaves too
The slavery thing was always more north vs south, Southern republicans were very much in favor of slaves too
The Republican Party was founded as an abolitionist party, man. The GOP didn’t achieve any power of note in the South until slavery was dead.
