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    Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween

    Can't tell if this article from Jacobin is serious or just a joke.

    Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween

    The socialist fantasy writer China Mieville is no stranger to the macabre or surreal. As proponent of “gothic Marxism,” he rejects more than just capitalist exploitation — he also stands strong against the disenchantment of the world inherent under capitalism.

    It should come as no surprise, then, that he is a fan of Halloween. In this talk, originally delivered at the 2013 Socialism Conference, he argues that socialists can not abandon Halloween to the Right.

    Reactionary ghouls may praise the holiday as living proof of humanity’s greedy self-interest, and some socialists, like late Hugo Chavez, may dismiss it as a pageant of imperialist terror. But for Mieville, Halloween is a source of the imaginative ammunition necessary for socialist politics — a celebration of the chaotic social over the orderly individual, an intuitive solidarity with those called monsters, and a principled refusal to be afraid of the dark.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Holy $#@!. One, I think he's serious. Two, he constructed as he put it, "a socialist defense of monsters", referencing the maligning from the bourgeois press about Chavez.

    Three, I didn't watch the whole thing.

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    Just the title tells you it's bull$#@!.
    Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
    Holy $#@!. One, I think he's serious. Two, he constructed as he put it, "a socialist defense of monsters", referencing the maligning from the bourgeois press about Chavez.

    Three, I didn't watch the whole thing.
    Yea, I started the video, saw how long it was, and killed.


    Killed--metaphorically speaking for sensitive readers.
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