Hugh writes!
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> Look at the Swedes -- they did a Latin America with the winter solstice,
> plastering a saintly facade (Lucia) on a pagan festival of light in
> midwinter darkness, December 13. They celebrate Midsummer too, as their
> biggy. Lucia is great, the girls dress up in long white nig
The revolutionary history of Christmas
By Tim Yeager
Christmastime can be so depressing. It brings out some of the worst features of
capitalism and rubs them in our faces.
You can't escape, whatever your philosophical or religious belief.
Advertisements spur on feelings of guilt if you do
George: I dont know whether there is much point even replying to Hughs stuff in this
posting. Christmas is a bourgeois holiday. It is designed to serve the interests of
capitalism on a variety of different levels --do you not even understand this.
Getting drunks is just what capitalism likes.
W
>>> Hugh Rodwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/23/99 08:03AM One of the nicest
>Christmas Eve's I ever spent (that's the Nordic/German
variant) was in bed with a friend reading The State and Revolution to while
away the time until she had to go and catch her train to the north.
Otherwise it's what yo
>Lets not all stop communicating by on the list over the Christmas period
>as generally
>happens. After all communists dont recognise Christmas as their festival.
>A lot of so
>called communists tend to be commies when it is easy and convenient.
>
>George
>
One of the nicest Christmas Eve's I eve
