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.
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.
The holiday is a proclamation of every person’s right to better their material and spiritual conditions unencumbered by the demands of powerful interests...
...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.
Labor Day actually commemorates the power of the Common Man collectively bargaining with the oligarchs, the Robber Barons: the group vs one mighty individual.