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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2019, 02:15 PM Mar 2019

"Labor is the superior of capital..."

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

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"Labor is the superior of capital..." (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 OP

What a commie gabeana Mar 2019 #1

KARL MARX AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PENPALS DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #2

Can you even imagine any Republican saying anything like that today? rurallib Mar 2019 #3

gabeana

(3,166 posts)

1. What a commie

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2019, 02:18 PM

Mar 2019

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. KARL MARX AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PENPALS

Reply to gabeana (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 2, 2019, 02:20 PM

Mar 2019

http://www.critical-theory.com/karl-marx-and-abraham-lincoln-penpals/

He most likely read Marx and all the other great political philosophers of his day and of previous era.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

3. Can you even imagine any Republican saying anything like that today?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2019, 02:35 PM

Mar 2019

They'd have a primary opponent before the last word left their mouth.

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