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Labor Day Is a Commie Holiday, Change My Mind
You know how I know Labor Day is a commie holiday? Nah, nah, it’s not the history of its inception. I’ll let R> historians address that.
It’s that it’s a damn lie and distortion of language. Propaganda, if you will.
“Labor Day” is supposed to honor the American worker, I guess. But, tell that to retail workers this weekend. Or the truckers who resupply the stores. Or people working the restaurants, hotels, and resorts where other workers will take their vacations this weekend. The only people assured of a day of rest are government workers — and not even all of them (essential military personnel).
Only commies could arrange it so that a holiday supposedly giving laborers a break have them working harder than ever. Damned commies.
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Labor means union labor.
The Christian missionaries in late Roman Europe did not take away pagan holidays. They co-opted them. Instead of a silly Marxist class warfare day, what should Labor Day be? Like a beer commercial that honors ordinary people who just get stuff done for us?
There is a ton of Catholic teaching on the sanctity of work. A designated day off from labor is supposed to be a moment of reflection and affirmation (eg. Jewish Sabbath).
So what affirmation of a more conservative bent should be inserted?
Yes, particularly public sector labor unions.
LOL. It may well have started as a token to the commies – I’m not 100% sure of the history- but I think a day to honor workers is warranted. I think of it as a tip at the end of a bill to honor the work. In Catholic circles, we honor St. Joseph as a worker. There is merit in honoring work in as much it honors the dignity of work. If it did start out as a commie holiday it can now be transformed into a capitalist honoring on the dignity of self sufficiency and work and not being on welfare.
Commie or not, I’m not going to work on Monday . . . change my mind
In the past, stores closed on holidays so workers had the day off. The public demanded 24/7 shopping, so stores obliged. Most workers get extra pay for working on holidays.
Have fun. I’ll be working.
Labor Day was a compromise to avoid May Day, the genuine commie holiday. True blue commies in America still celebrate May Day. I recall stumbling across a May Day celebration in Portland (I know, I know) about ten years ago. My only interest in May Day is from the pagan fertility rite angle: “Hooray, hooray, it’s the first of May.”
Is Labor Day just another case of the Right compromising with the Left, thereby advancing the ratchet another notch (or ten)? Or was it a reasonable way to deflect yet another commie hijacking of the culture? I’ll just leave that question for wiser folks to debate.
The compromise route would be a reasonable solution if you were dealing with reasonable people. Give them half of what they want and you immediately get new demands, going farther than the original.
What does communism have to do with Labor Day? I celebrate labor. I appreciate my wife for enduring labor, four times. I do find it curious that we have both Labor Day and Mother’s Day, but I don’t mind the extra praise for all the moms.
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WC, I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise, because I agree with you. I will nevertheless enjoy the day off.
It’s not to honor birthing persons?
(Sorry, Jerry. I missed your comment).
Same with May Day
My mother calls me up on my birthday and says, “Happy labor day!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
The more you know…
Would you like to know more?
Don’t care. Four days off for me. And the retail workers can just fuss around if’n they want. They’ll all be robots soon anyhow…
Today I stopped at Costco for a hot dog. Ordering is now by a digital kiosk.
Not wearing white after labor day is white privilege… change My mind.
In a capitalist society each person owns their labor. That is worth celebrating.
Is that what we have? A capitalist society? We’re working about half the year for the government (taxes) it seems to me.
In a lot of companies where they must operate on holidays, they will let employees who work the holiday take a different day off with pay.
The US has not been a capitalist society for about a century, certainly so after the adoption of the 16th Amendment and the New Deal. Most of the provisions of the 1928 Socialist Party platform have been adopted, as Milton Friedman pointed out many years ago. Read it and weep.
As an aside, the US has not been a republic since the adoption of the 17th Amendment.
It’s been that way for a while. Ticked me off the first time I came across it.
“Tip”? Here’s the whole thing:
Life is complicated.
You are misinformed about #2. Popes were writing encyclicals against communism since 1846 when it was condemned by Pope Pius IX, From 1846 through Pope St. John Paul II there has been a continuity of anti communism from the papacy. Communism has been condemned in Encyclicals from all those years. I don’t even know which one of perhaps a dozen documents I should point you to. Perhaps this one from 1937:
Or perhaps this document from 1949:
Maybe you should learn a little something on a subject before making such declarative statements.
I try to avoid shopping on Sunday.
Which is worse? The communists who want the workers of the world to unite and overthrow capitalists, or the people who don’t think anyone even needs to work? The old fashioned communists were evil and wrong about a hundred different things, but even they realized someone must actually work. You can read articles by over-educated 20-somethings who fantasize about a world where nobody has to work if they don’t feel like it.
I think BDB was observing that the Catholics coming over the southern border, for example, tend toward “socialism” (that nice feel-good communism, you know). There’s truth in that. Rather than dismiss it, I think we, as Catholics, should try to understand the reasons.
You’re correct, Manny, that the Church teaches against communism (while recognizing the flaws in capitalism), but how many Catholics actually know or believe what the Church teaches? 10%? Fewer? Certainly not Joe Biden! And on topics way more important than economic systems (the Real Presence, abortion)!
I always say that, within the Body of Christ, I am a collectivist. But, the Left (by which I mean Satan), has a way of corrupting all good things of God, including individualism (which Protestants tend to take too far (sorry, it’s true)) and collectivism (which many Catholics take too far). Liberation theology, which is Satan’s false promise of collective salvation (the flip-side of which is collective punishment — a grave evil being perpetrated in the current environment by the Left against conservatives Christians, especially if they’re white. . .) was born in Latin America. Catholic Latin America. It was condemned by St. PJPII, but it persists. So, the good that is the unity — the collective — within the Body of Christ in the Church has become corrupted and many Catholics have fallen for it and promote it in their economic philosophy.
Fact check: True.