1 May..... International Workers' Day

"If you love without evoking love in return, if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune"
Karl Marx (1818-1883).

Karl Marx, the forgotten, vilified (wilfully?) misinterpreted writer of
" The Capital, critique of Political Economy), which his mother said: 'Make sure you get it, instead of writing about it'.
"Das Kapital"..... that is so difficult to understand, don't start reading it.
Most people have read ABOUT Marx and haven't read books OF him!

So, these are some statements about a man who has put his life into service the awakening from the common man.
Just these Karl Marx talked about love. I wrote this quote down in my book:
"Alsof" het goed was ("As if" it was good). I made a big mistake by loving a wrong man.
What do we know about love?
Erich Fromm wrote a book: "The art of loving".
Lot of books has been written about love: lost loves, silent loves, heartbreak and so on. Do we understand after reading those books, what love is? By bitter experiences and many, many sorrow, we become wise.
Love, a feeling.
No more than 200 years ago, a marriage was not a case of love, but was based on calculation. The great, also vilified Napoleon Bonaparte, was the first who showed us, that it was possible to come together with an attitude of love.

I want to mention another "person" after those three: Jesus, existed or not. His life was One Call To Love. Three of the four were Jews, whereby Napoleon gave the Jews their civil rights. An act of respect and that is a form of love!

Jesus and Marx.
Eastern and 1 May.
1 May, a kind of Eastern for the not ecclesiastical cosmopolitan, the common man, man on the street, the hard working men, students, for the fellow-man.
1 May: fist up instead of a devotional Christ at the cross, with closed eyes. Both may exist on several moments in our life.
So..... I call International Workers' Day a Resurrection Day for the Human Being.
Isn't that an act of love and a step to the humanization on earth?!

Have a good day, all of you..... black, white, young and old..... everybody!

Keep alive
Aleke.

P.S. English is not my native language, but I use the principle, not HOW I write, but WHAT I write is important.