Hugh writes!
>
> 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
Hi John
There is much in what you say. We are forced along in some respects. However, although
different in your case, this does not necessarily stop us from tapping away through the
Christmas. Perhaps we may even discuss the character of Christmas and the millennium
celebrations.
Warm regards
G
>>> 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
December 21, 1999
Red baiting: Old divide and rule game
By John Bachtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chair, NY State Communist Party
It seems Mayor Giuliani is blaming Marxism for every protest breaking out
these days. In dredging up anti-communism Giuliani would like to undercut
growing opposition to
George,
He died in 1974 after sixty years at the heart of the
British communist movement. In fact the 20th December marked the 25th
anniversary of his death (and as he must have been born at the turn
of the century it must be close to the 100th anniversary of his birth
- perhaps a better thin
>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
This posting is a response to the financial scandals that are being highlighted in
Ireland. The scandals have involved prominent politicians, the government, business
people
and state officials.
There has been constant commentary and discussion in the media concerning the various
scandals. The s
George suggests:
> 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.
Thats all very well but this bloo
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