Obligatory May Day! post

Looking over this morning's blogs, I see a few sarcastic posts wishing me a happy May/Labour/International Workers' Day.
Like today is a socialist holiday.
You know what? It is. Not going to go into the history of May Day here because that's been done plenty of times before. If you consider socialism to be a movement originating in the 19th century seeking to abolish capitalism (not reform) and replace it with a something egalitarian and libertarian. So naturally the consistent socialist is an anarchist....
Eh, my idealism is showing... socialism is weird... if you want to look at it as just this anti-capitalist movement seeking collective ownership of the means of production in some form... Lots of splits when you start looking at the details of that, and how we're going to get there...
I for one think that our means ought to be consistent with our ends...
Yeah I'd call myself a socialist... need to qualify that with libertarian... libertarian socialist; because socialism is oh-so-often associated with authority and probably the majority of its supposed adherents embrace authoritarian means.

Section H::Why do anarchists oppose state socialism? (Link to Infoshop.org version if Geocities is not working as it is not for me right now.. I prefer the way the Geocities version looks..) Hm what was I thinking of posting this yes see especially section H3, the myths of state socialism.. esp. Do anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?

Are anarchists socialists?

Very interesting is Eugene Plawiuk on The Origins and Traditions of May Day

Collection of lots of stuff at the Marxist Internet Archive (This is a goldmine, I love the MIA, they have so much useful stuff)
According to Rosa Luxemburg, May Day was borne out of the eight-hour day movement in Australia, not Haymarket.

May Day - the Real Labor Day

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