The holiday of Labor Day has Communist roots. But it is also true that there is nothing more American — and, actually, less Communist — than honoring every worker.
Communism is collective rather than individualist, and while rambling about “workers” Communists are happy to see many individual workers crushed for “the good of the people.” Nothing could be less American. Unlike in so many nations before them, the Founders aimed to establish America as a country that honors and glorifies workers, putting them in charge of the nation rather than making them political or economic slaves to titled elites.
America might not always have lived up to that ideal, particularly in regard to slavery and now in our own day with the pseudo-socialism that has crept into our government, but that was always the founding principle.
The Founders imbibed this idea from the Bible, which taught both Jews and Christians to honor work. After all, God’s first command to Adam was to work in the garden of paradise (Genesis 2:15), and St. Paul famously wrote in his second letter to the Thessalonians, “If any man will not work, neither let him eat.” That certainly disposes of so-caleld “Christian” arguments for the anti-American, Marxist welfare state.
George Washington, the father of our country, had many jobs in his life. He was a renowned soldier, surveyor, explorer, general, statesman, president, and international celebrity. Yet he wrote to a young relative with enthusiasm, “I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” He loved and reveled in nothing so much as getting his hands and boots dirty in agricultural work, and he hoped many Americans would follow his example. That has nothing to do with Communist worker organizations, however.
Even today commies know this Labor Day holiday grew out of their pernicious ideology. The email ad for a socialist Chicago Trump Tower protest claims, “Today's protest is happening as part of the National Labor Day Workers Over Billionaires Mobilizations happening throughout the Country.” Probably funded by leftist billionaires, if I were guessing. Yesterday in East Hampton, activists marched to protest politicians from both political parties as “part of the Workers Over Billionaires National Day of Action.” All one big, commie family.
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But Communism always ends up hurting workers the most. The capitalism and republicanism of America is the philosophy best for workers. Hence Democrats have always been liars while claiming to be for workers, because throughout their history, they have supported either slavery or some form of socialism. Whereas the true American rejects both slavery and socialism, for the good of workers and with the greatest respect for labor.
Again, this is all a Biblical idea, a Judeo-Christian principle which the Founders discovered through religion and transferred to politics. The Old Testament warns against the sin of depriving workers of justly earned wages: “The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning (Leviticus 19:13).” Proverbs 14:23 states, “In all labor there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.” Deuteronomy 24:15 says, “Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor.” The Son of God chose to be born to the wife of a humble carpenter, and Christ who spent most of his life pursuing this trade said (Luke 10:7), “The laborer is worthy of his hire.”
Many of Christ’s parables feature laborers, from farmers to servants, such as Matthew 20 (parable of the vineyard workers), Matthew 13 (the parable of the good seed), and Matthew 18:23ff (parable of the wicked servant). Christ even made entrance into Heaven conditional on putting one’s talents to work (see Matthew 25:14ff). Only in America was that parable of the talents applied to the political and economic spheres, allowing everyone to use his talents as God intended rather than as his birth dictated.
So on this Labor Day, ignore the Communist propaganda and take pride in the fact that we Americans really do live in the only country on earth where the worker is king.
