Happy Feast of St. Joseph, the Worker | National Catholic Reporter

Happy Feast of St. Joseph, the Worker | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The Catholic Church as an interesting history of jumping on other people's holidays and Catholicizing them.  May Day is one of those.  Not all socialists are Stalinists - indeed most of us are democratic socialists or (gasp) libertarian socialists - even Catholic libertarian socialists. While Marx was both Jewish and atheistic and there are plenty of secularists in the socialist movement, we all seem to get along and respect eachother's work (which is the essence of libertarianism, by the way - it is not heresy).  Of course libertarianism believes that simply repealing Roe v. Wade is a bad idea (although I also know many pro-life libertarians - including Ron Paul).  Socialists would fund abortions, but they would also fund or require the funding of a family wage.  Along with the Church, we helped put forward Social Security - and then some.  The then some is what got the rich to go along with FDR so Social Security could pass.  While the Church helped lead, no one was exactly afraid of a Church backed revolution in 1932.  They were afraid of the Socialist movement.  Workers won't succeed until they are afraid again - although this time we should not stop at simply scaring the wealthy into moderate reform.