On Labor Day, Vow to Celebrate REAL and Forgotten US Holidays
Today is Labor Day, a day to relax and spend time with family and friends—all brought to you by Socialism and Marxism!
The fact that George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays, or Constitution Day, are not nationally celebrated holidays but Labor Day is, tells us where we are in this country—and it’s not good. How is it that we do not celebrate the most important figures and events in our founding and preservation as a nation, but we do have a Marxist-tied holiday?
“[Strident Conservative] Every year, workers across the United States celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday of September: a day that also marks the end of summer, the start of football season, and the return to school for millions of children. And while it is heralded as a celebration of the America worker, the origin of the holiday is rooted in Marxism and Socialism.
In reality, Labor Day has more in common with May Day — aka Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day — a communist celebration conceived by Socialists to recognize the historic struggles experienced by workers and the global labour movement (Excerpts from In Defense of Marxism website):
The first Labor Day was celebrated on September 5th of 1882 in New York City.
In subsequent years, its popularity grew. . .However, it was not declared an official national holiday until 1894, and when this declaration was made, the federal government had motives other than simply wanting workers to have a holiday to celebrate ‘the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.’
To understand why the government declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, we need to look at what was going on in that year. 1894 saw several labor explosions surrounding May Day, which the First Congress of the Socialist International had declared International Workers’ Day in 1889, in memory of the martyrs of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago. On May 1st, 1894, May Day riots began in Cleveland. . .
The bosses and their government were clearly fearful of the May Day riots and the Pullman strike. . .Days after the strike was put down, Cleveland pushed a proposal for an officially recognized Labor Day through Congress, which passed unanimously. It was declared officially on June 28th, 1894 and was first celebrated in September of that year.
The September holiday was conceived of and celebrated by socialists and militants within the labor movement, and we should remember and reclaim this history.”
Remember, that’s straight from Communists.
It is true that no philosophy in history celebrated the individual and the ordinary laborer the way that the American philosophy as conceived by the Founders did. But Labor Day is not a holiday with its roots in the American value for honest work, but in the Marxist revolutionary fervor for pitting employees against employers in class warfare.
Obviously if you have Labor Day off I am not saying you have to go into work anyway or that you can’t enjoy the day with family and friends. But I am encouraging conservative employers, including politicians and media outlets, to start giving employees their days off on actual American holidays like Constitution Day or George Washington’s Birthday instead of communistic holidays like Labor Day. I am also encouraging all conservatives to do their best to celebrate the forgotten but important holidays of America, either on social media or in-person celebrations.
Why is amnesia so terrible? It is because people who do not know their past cannot plan for the future or function properly in the present because they have lost their very identity. There has been a deliberate infliction of cultural, political, and historical amnesia in America for decades now. We cannot let the Marxists and globalists win. Holidays are powerful—they bring us together and remind us where we came from so that we know where we have to go.
So this Labor Day, start making plans to celebrate Constitution Day (Sept. 17), Washington’s (Feb. 22) and Lincoln’s (Feb. 12) birthdays, and other important events in American history. We can take back the calendar and the culture for our own. We are Americans, and our holidays should reflect that.