To all of those hispanic protestors around the nation today: enjoy the day that the blood, sweat and legacy of Capitalism are allowing you. Oh, and next time? Try not to choose such an offensive day to bring forward your demands.
Perhaps you would rather have lived in the Soviet Union, where May Day protests celebrated the victory of the worker annually? Or maybe not, when someone does the math on how many Stalin actually murdered. Check out this blog: Catallarchy: How Many Did Stalin Really Murder? He does that math for us, and concludes that the Soviet Union is responsible for the deaths of 62,000,000 people.
I've never heard of Catallarchy before, but they remember, yearly, May Day. Today may not be a bad day to stop and think about that evil spectre of Capitalism.
2 comments:
While May Day has long been attributed to workers in the Soviet Union, the march has a much older history. May Day is a commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. Once working conditions improved in capitalist nation-states, May Day demonstrations became more popular and pervasive in Communist nation-states, for economic reasons. During yesterday's May Day, people from all over the world marched for workers' rights, not just Hispanics: people in Sweden, Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia, England, China, Turkey, the United States, among others.
I'm aware of the history of May Day. The reason that May Day is not celebrated in the United States as Labor Day is that it has become (as a remembrance of a violent revolt by the working class) pretty well marxist and labor officials purposely distanced themselves from Marxism in the USA (for good reason: marxism advocates rebellion!). I am aware that Communist Parties had a strong hand in organizing this May Day's immigration rallies, and I resent it.
Ultimately, it's just not culturally sensitive.
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