Our Favorite Socialist Holiday Songs

December 25, 2022 by The Activist Editorial Board

With love from The Activist Editorial Board, here’s a carefully curated playlist, perfect for you and your loved ones this winter:

All I Want For Christmas (is a Rail Strike!)
Last Christmas (I Gave You My Surplus Value)
Billionaires Roasting Over an Open Fire
(I’m Dreaming of a) Red Christmas
Picketing Around the Christmas Tree
Rudolph the Red
I Saw Mommy Kissing Friedrich Engels
Deck the Halls (With Boughs of Roses)
O’ Socialism O’ Socialism an Economic Theory to Remember
Revolution Bells Ring, Are You Listening?
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Schultz/Bezos/Musk
Karl Marx is Coming to Town

Thanks for submitting and reading this year — see you in the next!

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