Here's a Labor Day trivia question. Guess which political icon said the following.
"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 recognition."
Too hard? OK, let's just go with guessing the political leaning of the speaker. Surely it's a Marxist or at least a liberal democrat, right? No, as it happens, the speaker is none other than that leading light of "the party of Lincoln" - Abraham Lincoln himself. Ronald Reagan once said of his switch from the Democratic party to the GOP, "I didn't leave the Democratic party, the party left me." If Lincoln were available for comment, perhaps he'd be voicing similar feelings about today's Republican party.
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