Tomorrow - 1st of May, in Romania, we celebrate Labor Day by staying at home 😅, partying. Do you celebrate this holiday in your country? If yes, how?
Apr 30 · 7 days ago
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i think in armenia it is perceived as a relic of soviet times.
if there were reasons to cancel "celebrations" of communist revolution in russia, there could be nothing against may first so the holiday stayed.
but i think nobody takes it seriously because it doesn't belong to the society. i think it may matter where these may first protests were actually happening, where it was lived, where it have had mattered.
may first in ussr was foreign and not really understandable, also hypocritical: nobody really cared about worker rights, as well as march eight very fast became a day to give women flowers, and its original feminist meaning was forgotten.
ussr was full of hypocricy and nobody really cared.
Labor day?
Obviously, you should celebrate Labor Day by working, preferrably hard and with your hands. None of that office work. Go out and build a picket fence, help raise a barn, swap out your toilet, or plow a field.
It is absurd to eat hot dogs and blab with your friends.
in north america, the official labour day at the beginning of september. May first is not recognized as a holiday, but many people in the labour movement celebrate "May day" in rememberance of the Haymarket affair and see it as a more legitimate labour day exactly because it's not officially recognized. Around here anyway the two days look pretty similar except that the parade was organized by communists instead of city council.
It's supposed to be a day of festivities to celebrate the coming year and fertility. Traditional May Day celebrations include gathering wildflowers, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May king and queen, and dancing around a decorated Maypole.
Except now it's been turned into something quite different.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · May 01 at 03:17:
@stack it's not absurd, it's quite nice
@stack @lamd-duh @Ashnar @norayr 🍻
Well, ok, not absurd but odd.
I would prefer a fxxking-off-work day personally
🚀 lars_the_bear · May 02 at 16:42:
In my region, we still celebrate May 1st with fertility rituals -- maypoles, men wearing bells hitting sticks together, that kind of thing. It's charmingly ridiculous.