Rickerism

I certainly enjoy having the first Monday of September off, but calling it Labor Day in the 21st Century is a bit ridiculous.

I did some research. (Does going to Wikipedia qualify as research?) The American Socialist movement started Labor Day in the 1880s. Not nearly so obnoxious as the Communists’ May Day, the principle behind the name is still insidious.

Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day…is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

– Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor (as quoted by the US Department of Labor)

What a despicable concept, a day dedicated to nothingness. Have we not seen enough of the horror to which such concepts lead? The same ideology that Gompers used to create Labor Day others used to create Hitler’s concentration camps, Stalin’s purge, the Berlin Wall, the killing fields of Cambodia, the reeducation camps of Vietnam, Tienanmen Square and the nightmare of North Korea. Can we not kill the Socialist monster already?

Labor is not something to celebrate. The fruits of labor are what we should celebrate. Free men do not work for work’s sake; only slaves do that. Slavery is the objective of Socialism. Free men work for themselves, for their own prosperity, their own happiness, their own property. Labor did not make America great. Individualism, ingenuity and capital made America great.

From now on, I am taking the first Monday of September off as Capital Day.