• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Yes, it is a deliberate attempt to dismantle and untie labor rights celebrations from their Communist origins.

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      I didn’t even learn about the Haymarket bombing until I was thirty. It’s like Armistice day became memorial day and no one is ever told that it was originally a day to reflect on the horrors of war and now it’s all just olive drab hero worship. We are intentionally under educated in the US