happy both and i'm glad for both, though i don't like strife and trouble. so i guess i find the celtic old polytheistic one the happier. being its about the coming of spring and been around ages longer. but the celebration of the solidarity of labor and of international brotherhood is a good honorable and worthy thing to, regardless of any political demonizing of it.
I think it quite telling that one side's go-to sock puppet to frighten children with is ANTIFA; a contraction of "Anti-Fascist". If you're against anti-Fascism, then that means you're in favor of...
ya, i kinda thought the side america was on in world war two was anti-fascist. then mccarthyism came along. then another two or three generations who hadn't been born yet. and as the long memory fades into the sunset, what worries me is the way never again sort of fades with it. so ya, i'd rather be called antifa then late for dinner. and i kinda thought pacifistic anti-fascism was one of the very heartmost core things being an anti-war in vietnam hippie back in the day, was all about.
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” Hegel
Back in the 80s I got to know Mark Ross in Missoula, Mt, folk singer extraordinary. He headed the IWW office in town and got to hear him and Utah Phillips sing labor songs together. What a great experience.
i used to listen to u utah philips on kvmr. don't think i ever met him. labour organizing is what made the middle class that made capitalism work, back when it did, but never without social programs to protect people from falling out the bottom. unionized infrastructure and mom and pop retailing. my dad claimed to have been a wobbly back in his day.
