As Christmas approaches, a Christian socialist

(a) remembers that Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in the same city, in the same year, as Karl Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto." (Whether it's faster to seek to warm the hearts of the Ebeneezers of the world, one at a time, or to mobilize collective action for concrete change against a political-economic class with no interest in changing, is a question worth asking.)

(b) remembers that Marx's famous line about religion being "the opiate of the people" was stolen from Anglican priest John Ludlow.

(c) invests in Richard Horsley's "Liberation of Christmas" and "Christmas Unwrapped" via amazon.com.

(d) Googles the connection between St. Nicholas and pawn shops and thinks long and hard.

(e) all of the above--plus (your answer here): ____________________