Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Putting the Spring Cross Quarter Day to Good Use
Eugene Volokh comes up with a very solid idea today. Let's use the former Commie Holiday, May Day (a Cross Quarter day), to mourn and remember the nearly 100 milliion political murders by the International Socialists in the 20th Century.
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May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their regimes. I suggest that we instead use it as a day to commemorate those regimes’ millions of victims. The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined. We appropriately have a Holocaust Memorial Day. It is equally appropriate to commemorate the victims of the twentieth century’s other great totalitarian tyranny. And May Day is the most fitting day to do so. I suggest that May Day be turned into Victims of Communism Day….Yeah, let's do.
The main alternative to May 1 is November 7, the anniversary of the communist coup in Russia. However, choosing that date might be interpreted as focusing exclusively on the Soviet Union, while ignoring the equally horrendous communist mass murders in China, Camobodia, and elsewhere. So May 1 is the best choice.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:05 AM 
