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
Party realignment happened, so the current republicans are not really “political descendants” of the party that ended slavery.
Still point taken lol
Slavery didn’t actually end either thanks to the thirteenth amendment, which was later further developed by Genocide Joe’s crime bill. The Confederacy lost the battle but won the war.
Please read the comment chain before rehashing a discussion that’s already happened.
Where does the comment chain mention Genocide Joe’s many contributions to slavery in amerikkka?
I stopped reading after the first half because either you did that annoying thing when you see someone else’s comment and you just rewrite it to try and farm karma, or you didn’t read it and deserve the same lack of consideration/effort. Either way it was the right call.
Suffice to say I also don’t respond to forced talking points.