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Hasn't Christmas has been around longer than capitalism?
No
Where would you place the starts of those two?
Religion is a product of capitalism and it's right hand. The other hand of capitalism is state.
This is such a bizarre take. That would mean capitalism existing before religion.
Of course it did
When do you figure those two things started?
During agricultural revolution
It doesn't seem to be a very common view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism