May 1 - The story of May Day - by Elizabeth Schulte
Elisabeth Schulte tells the history of May Day, a socialist holiday founded to honor the Haymarket Martyrs and celebrate international workers' solidarity.Although May Day was founded to honor a U.S. labor struggle, few workers in this country typically know its origin, because the history is largely untold. This has changed, however--since the mass immigrant workers' May Day marches that began in 2006.
Note EU-Digest: A current Rasmussen poll shows that only 53% of Americans believe that the capitalist way of life is better than the socialist. With the election of Barack Obama, socialism is becoming the in thing with a lot of people, especially the younger generation. Adults under 30 are almost evenly divided in the Rasmussen poll; 37% opt for capitalism while 33% prefer socialism, a staggering 30% remain undecided. Those in their 30’s are more supportive of capitalism with 49% favoring the free enterprise system. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism over socialism with only 13% saying that a socialist government is the right way to go. People also tend to put their money where their mouth is; those who invest are 5 to 1 in favor of capitalism while only 40% of those who don’t invest their own money favor the capitalist system. Not surprisingly, 25% of those who do not invest favor socialism. Once again, no big surprise, but those who favor capitalism or socialism are divided in a partisan way as well. Republicans favor capitalism by an 11-1 margin, while democrats are much more divided on the issue; 39% say they favor capitalism while 30% favor socialism. Amazingly, Rasmussen conducted the same poll in December of 2008; the results were astonishingly different. Just four months ago 70% of those polled preferred a free market economy. There also seems to be a major misconception between the term Socialism and Communism. Conservatives have the tendency to put the two in one wrapper.
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