The origin story is of course historical nonsense but Thanksgiving is still the only good holiday in the US calendar, we should aspire to to achieve the nonsense
Okay, fair enough. Let's just say it's now far removed from its agitational origins.
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and whether or not it was *initially* designed to foreclose may day, it ended up serving that function... that’s why it was officially adopted as a federal holiday after haymarket!
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wrong again -- it had nothing to do with the Haymarket affair. Read the article. And, in the US, May Day was never celebrated by anyone not in the Marxist left. In contrast, there were huge union demos through the 1930s on LD.
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