May Day in America. The United States. Canada. Mexico. And On...

    Here we are capitalists and communists, libertarians and socialists. And maybe some anarchists, wherever or whomever you are. And millions celebrate the day dedicated to the proletariat, the laborers, the people who work and toil and sacrifice for the greater state, one party.

    Revolutions and the removal of the bourgeoisie. The materialist middle class. Heard of them?

    People in different countries, like Chile where I have lived, or likely China or possibly North Korea, march and tout their red flags or other emblems of the Marxist wave of economic hopes and dreams.

    The rest of us see failures and nightmares. Suffering and tyranny.

    Marx and Engels must be suffering plenty in heaven or the afterlife in which they are found. Because what resulted from their thoughts and plans, theories or systems, either was very much corrupted and abused, or the ideas were asinine and brutally deadly to begin with.

    May Day in Magadan, and dozens of other lands.

    Capitalism and its