{"id":4120,"date":"2011-09-02T19:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T03:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T03:11:56","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-tricky-labor-no-jobs-day-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-tricky-labor-no-jobs-day-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Tricky Labor (no jobs) Day Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t be Fooled by a Fake Labor day, but have a nice day off! \u00a0By Olive Johnson: <\/strong>INTERNATIONALLY the First of May is known and celebrated as the workers\u2019 holiday. In America, on the other, hand, the First Monday in September is officially set aside as Labor Day, and those who insist, in the international spirit, on celebrating May Day are obliged to do so in defiance of the country\u2019s established custom for the sake of greater harmony with the proletariat of the world. Why this divergence in the holiday spirit of labor between the United States and the rest of the world? To answer that question is to open the entire subject of the relations between capital and labor, and the tactics of what broadly passes for the labor movement in facing these relations.<\/p>\n

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\nMay Day faces the relationship of capital and labor in the Marxian spirit of the class struggle; Labor Day sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor instilled through Samuel Gompers into the American Federation of Labor. Two diametrically divergent theories of the position of labor in society and its struggle for a share of the good things of this world brought forth by its efforts. The difference in these theories centers around the right to the ownership and control of the means of production. The American Federation of Labor not only does not dispute the right to ownership and control by private capitalists but it actually champions and buttresses that control. The Marxian conception, on the contrary, is that since the tool of production by becoming a machine has passed completely out of the possibility of private operation and has become collective, the spirit of the age demands and commands collective ownership by the actual producers, i.e., the workers themselves. \u00a0 <\/strong>www.google.com\/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CB0QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fslp.org%2Fpdf%2Fothers%2Fmayday_vs_ld_omj.pdf&ei=6UJdTvSFGKmRsAK3m4E-&usg=AFQjCNH9DoqtEj3m__ZvBpX3xRjQVVfn1A<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations to William Adler on the Publication of<\/strong>\"\"<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

A New Online Red University Originating in South Africa: <\/strong>domza.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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