Happy May Day!
May 1st, 2008 by Jon Stahl
Zephyr Teachout waxes eloquent about May Day:
May Day is not about people in the streets. I like streets as much as the next person, but streets, like the internet, are only tools–in 1890 they were powerful tools, and the right tools to use, but if you confuse the image with the action, you can spend years in the streets (or on the internet) and never get anything done. May Day was an actual expression of power that was being wielded to allow people to control their own lives. And May Day is not about an ideology, unless that ideology is democracy.
Hat tip to Michael Gilbert.
