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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social

The animating spirit of Labor Day is a declaration of individual rights and human dignity in the face of capitalism's relentless push towards automation, dehumanization, and, at its most extreme: unchecked private tyranny.

aug 31, 2025, 7:13 pm • 5 0

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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social

The holiday is a proclamation of every person’s right to better their material and spiritual conditions unencumbered by the demands of powerful interests...

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Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social

...who seek to reduce the human condition to a state of machine-like drudgery in the name of satiating the stock markets and slaking the thirst of those driven only by perpetual acquisition.

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cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social

Labor Day actually commemorates the power of the Common Man collectively bargaining with the oligarchs, the Robber Barons: the group vs one mighty individual.

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