1st of May, the day in which socialists and communists, and their sympathizers, hold parades and rallies to openly proclaim their ideology and their solidarity with workers. Honest workers should indeed be honored, but be wary of those political elites who appoint themselves the representatives of workers! Generation after generation since even before the time of Marx the story has been the same: Workers of the world unite! But the subtext is always "And we will lead you into the new bright future!" Marx and Engels even cleverly gave a name to this ruse: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is the cadre of revolutionaries who through violence or other corrupt means grab hold of the levers of power and dictate to the rest of us just how they are going to usher in the new egalitarian utopia. Their track record is plain for all to see, who care to see: The Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba, China. They do manage to bring out equality for the masses -- they tend to make everybody but themselves extremely poor. Giving everybody poverty is certainly one way of achieving equality! Except that they and their elites do not tend to share in this great equality. Stalin, Mao, Castro and the Kim Jong family have all managed to stay affluent while the proletariat starved. And if anybody complained, they were sent to Gulags -- if they were lucky -- but more often they were simply murdered. Mao, by himself, has probably murdered more people than any other regime in the history of mankind.
Thus, celebrate the dignity and honor of those who work, but don't listen to the elites who claim to speak for them, the wolves in sheep's clothing. We are seeing these folks in a variety of guises today, the various Occupy movements and union thuggery being prime examples. Always be wary of those who claim to speak for the 99%
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