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"Xmas is a capitalist holiday and yet you commies enjoy it, curious!" :very-intelligent:

Shuddup, what is more Marxist then giving people gifts? Eat my tinsel infused doodoo.

  • dead [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    what is more Marxist then giving people gifts?

    At the start of the 1800s, Christmas was a time when seasonal workers were without work, so they would do revelry in the streets, eating and drinking publicly. The Christmas season was once a period were the proletariat could publicly show their discontent with the bourgeoisie.

    • knifestealingcrow [any]
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      2 years ago

      There's a Christmas tradition where I live that involves disguising yourself and others as a group and essentially forcing (works on vampire rules, you knock and loudly ask to come in and if the door opens everyone rushes in) your way into someone's house, eating all their food, drinking all their booze, and leaving before they figure out who you are.

      It was banned for a while in the mid 1800s because people started using it as an opportunity to target the merchants that paid them in company credit and kept them permanently in debt and stopped "asking" to be let in, resulting in at least 1 death. People didn't stop, so it was eventually allowed with a license but the government just stopped issuing licenses after a while and it nearly died out, but it came back sometime around the 40s I believe as the chiller celebration it is now.