Happy May Day!

Today is Tuesday, 1 May 2007.

Happy International Workers’ Day, comrades!

For the record: The Museum of the Bourgeois advocates anarcho-socialism. Classical anarchism politically: cooperation, not coercion. Socialism economically: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs; none rich, none poor.

“Imagine”.

Special note to Christianist capitalist fundamentalist extremists. According to Acts 2:44-5, “And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need”.

In other words, the members of the early church at Jerusalem, those who knew Jesus best, including the Apostles, lived in what economists call “primitive communism”.

All ye who claim to take the Bible literally, and obey it in all things, kindly heed.

Following are two verses and the chorus from The Red Flag, by James Connell (the anthem of the British Labour Party; tune is O Tannenbaum).

Verse 1

The workers' flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead;
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their life-blood dyed its every fold.

CHORUS:
Then raise the scarlet standard high;
Beneath its folds we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here.

Verse 5

With heads uncovered, swear we all,
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark, or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn!

CHORUS:
Then raise the scarlet standard high;
Beneath its folds we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here.

THE MUSEUM OF THE BOURGEOIS: Keeping the red flag flying since 1789.