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Can anti-capitalists celebrate xmas?

oioi | 20.12.2009 17:11

xmas- capitalisms crowning moment.

A question I have been asking myself, and considering for some time now. Christmas is the ultimate in greed culture; much is bought and wasted at this time of year. It is capitalisms greatest achievement, the one day it can celebrate in knowing all over people buy its crap, munch on so much more food. And all for what??? A fake religion? The thought of giving? What about solstice. And why so much. Personally I stopped celebrating it years ago. I just felt so guilty, living on protest sites, going to demos and being involved in direct action yet still involved in the big fake Xmas scam.

This is all it is, a scam.

oioi

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Of course they can, Oioi

20.12.2009 17:39

Just because people are "anti-capitalists" doesn't mean that they can't also be Christians. Just because to you a "false religion" doesn't mean it is to them. Just because somebody is a Christian and celebrates Christmas doesn't mean that they do so in an orgy of buying.

NOTE: I am not personally a Christian. But the idea that Christians can't be "anti-capitalists" is such nonsense we shouldn't have to wait for Christian anticapitalists to step forward to defend themslves. Even those of us anti-capitalists who are Atheists or Agnostics know of comrades who are religious.

MDN

New Year's Wish

20.12.2009 18:12

My new year wish is for a 2010 free of the usual moralistic crap that passes for 'anti-capitalism in these times

H