[southerntofu]

Socialism/Anarchism has serious roots in the United States. See the history of the underground railroad, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and actual gun battles against the militias of the bosses (Pinkermen), workers opposition to the first world war and their jailing for anti-war propaganda (anti-war doesn't mean anti-revolution, on the contrary), etc..

At some point of course a lot of people are gonna think a 0.001% to become a millionnaire and 99.99% chance to stay a wage slave all your life is better than great chances to be detained, mutilated or assassinated by the police or a militia.

[vidarh]

The irony of how little May 1st means in the US today, is that May 1st as the international day of labor demonstrations stems in part from the AFL announcing to the First International that they planned to pick up demonstrations for the 8 hour day again, in part in commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre.

So in large parts of the world organised labour annually takes part in demonstrations as a direct result of the commitment of US unions.