Communists Don't Deserve A Holiday

Posted at 12:46am on May 2, 2008 A Proper May Day Commemoration

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

On a day when some would like you to believe that you should offer up a rousing rendition of L'Internationale and when we wonder whether or not a cruel joke has been played on the campus of the university that is the citadel of free market economics, it is good to defy the conventions of May Day and to rededicate oneself to the cause of small government and human liberty. On every single day, we ought to remember what the dictatorship of the proletariat hath wrought. And remember as well that instead of wasting your time reading Marx, Engels and Lenin--save for the purpose of having yourself a good laugh over their theories--you could instead make good use of your time reading Smith, Hayek and Friedman.

Speaking of Friedman:

That video is more instructive than any pretentious, antiquated and vicious May Day message from the usual suspects could ever be.

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