Here’s some material to help you celebrate May Day the dork way: by sitting at your computer and reading stuff:

Rad Geek lays down the history of May Day:

Today is May Day, or International Worker’s Day: a day to celebrate the long, hard struggle of workers for freedom, self-determination, and a better life. The day originated during the heady days of the Eight Hour Day campaign in the late 19th century, a campaign led not by bureaucratic union bosses, much less by Marxist thugs, but by ordinary workers agitating and organizing amongst themselves. Most of them were anarchists, and their struggle was as much against State power as it was against the bosses (part of the reason for May Day commemorations, mind you, is to remember the Haymarket martyrs, anarchists murdered by the state of Illinois).

Back in 1888, Benjamin Tucker described the differences and similarities between state socialism and anarchism.

Yesterday, Brad Spangler presented an interesting look at the historic and current relation of market anarchism to socialism and the left.

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