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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.
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It is hard to pinpoint Abraham Lincoln's economic leanings, but one thing is clear. Republicans today hate Lincoln and his pro-Black, anti-Capitalist, private-property stealing, big government policies.
Lincoln's party was responsible for the largest growth of Federal Government in US history, whether it was from building Railways and Canals, to confiscating Plantation owner land and giving it to former slaves (do you think after the slaves are freed the former slave holder should also be forced to surrender some of their land?!)
Lincoln's policies also created the largest land-give-away in history such that 75% of American households owned their own property by 1890.
Of course, the Southern/Conservative counter-revolution has all but destroyed the US middle class created by Lincoln's liberals and the eventual Progressive Democrat movement.
Why then do I say Lincoln was a communist?
Well it's simple.
Lincoln believed that if a person worked, they were entitled to own the fruits of their labor, and this is a directly communist statement.
It's not necessarily Marxist, but that is not what I am claiming.
What Lincoln believed was that Capital belongs to the person who worked to create it, not to the person who owned it because a piece of paper says so.
Read more at Abraham Lincoln Quotes at BrainyQuote.com
It is hard to pinpoint Abraham Lincoln's economic leanings, but one thing is clear. Republicans today hate Lincoln and his pro-Black, anti-Capitalist, private-property stealing, big government policies.
Lincoln's party was responsible for the largest growth of Federal Government in US history, whether it was from building Railways and Canals, to confiscating Plantation owner land and giving it to former slaves (do you think after the slaves are freed the former slave holder should also be forced to surrender some of their land?!)
Lincoln's policies also created the largest land-give-away in history such that 75% of American households owned their own property by 1890.
Of course, the Southern/Conservative counter-revolution has all but destroyed the US middle class created by Lincoln's liberals and the eventual Progressive Democrat movement.
Why then do I say Lincoln was a communist?
Well it's simple.
Lincoln believed that if a person worked, they were entitled to own the fruits of their labor, and this is a directly communist statement.
It's not necessarily Marxist, but that is not what I am claiming.
What Lincoln believed was that Capital belongs to the person who worked to create it, not to the person who owned it because a piece of paper says so.