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Imagine a holiday that’s not based around the church, a capitalist figurehead or settler-colonial conquest.
想象一个不是以教堂、资本主义名义领袖或定居者的殖民征服为基础的节日。
One that brings both chosen family and friends together to enjoy each other's company, eat good food, play games, and go outside to be in presence of community.
这样的节日可以把选定的家人和朋友聚在一起，享受彼此的陪伴，吃美食，玩游戏，外出参加社区活动。
One that doesn’t require thousands of dollars to celebrate and doesn’t produce copious amounts of waste and exploitation.
它不需要花数千美元来庆祝，也不会造成大量的浪费和剥削。
Where you can take a break from work, and just relax.
在这一天，你可以脱离工作，休息一下，放松一下。
This is what I would want my December holiday to look like.
这就是我想要的12月假期的样子。
But I’m just one person.
但我只是一个人。
We all need to be developing alternatives to Christmas and the holiday season and be thinking about the question journalist Valerie Vande Panne asks: “How do we reinvent this holiday season to have a deeper meaning than what appears to be a celebration honoring the god of capitalism?”
我们都需要开发圣诞节和圣诞季的替代品，并思考报纸撰稿人瓦莱丽·万德·潘恩提出的问题：“我们如何重塑这个假日季，使其具有更深刻的意义，而不是像现在这样，看起来是在庆祝资本主义之神?”
This is a difficult endeavor, especially because we exist in a global capitalist system that constantly pressures us to consume and work.
这是一项艰难的工作，特别是因为我们生活在一个不断迫使我们消费和工作的全球资本主义体系中。
In order to truly rid ourselves of capitalism’s stranglehold on Christmas we need to dismantle and replace it with the system wherein we all control and own the factories and systems of production.
为了真正摆脱资本主义对圣诞节的束缚，我们需要废除它，代之以我们对工厂和生产系统具有控制权和所有权的体系。
In short, we need to end capitalism as we know it.
简而言之，我们需要终结我们所知的资本主义。
But that world might be a little ways off in the future.
但这样的世界在未来可能还有一段距离。
So, what could alleviate the pressure to consume and pollute during the holiday season right now?
那么，现在有什么方法可以缓解节日期间的消费和污染压力呢？
Buying fewer presents or making your own is a start.
可以从少买礼物或自己做礼物开始。
As we’ve already discussed, however, this consumer-side solution has yet to drastically change the shape of production and the pollution it causes, but changing the way you do gifts might be an accessible first step to changing the way you celebrate the end of December and the New Year.
然而，正如我们已经讨论过的，这种消费者方面的解决方案还没有彻底改变生产的形式及其造成的污染，但改变你做礼物的方式，可能是改变你庆祝12月底和新年的方式的可行第一步。
Emphasizing interpersonal connection rather than material consumption is just a small way to shift the values of the holiday.
强调人际关系，而不是物质消费，只是改变圣诞节价值观的一个小方法。
But this shifting could also take the form of a communal potluck with friends, neighbors, and extended family.
但这种改变也可以采取与朋友、邻居和大家庭一起聚餐的形式。
The key is to expand Christmas out of the home and the nuclear family outwards towards your larger community.
关键是要把圣诞节从家庭和核心家庭向外扩展到更大的社区。
While Christmas is rooted in Christianity, its capitalist takeover has secularized it.
虽然圣诞节植根于基督教，但资本主义的接管使它世俗化了。
Reclaiming Christmas, not for Christianity, but for an opportunity to explore what it means to have pleasure outside of capitalism is essential.
夺回圣诞节，不是为了基督教，而是为了有机会探索在资本主义之外享受快乐意味着什么，这是至关重要的。
So this Christmas, expand the scope of what is possible and remember that traditions can always be changed.
因此，在这个圣诞节，扩大可能的范围，记住传统总是可以改变的。
Maybe that change looks like a return to the public revelry of the past.
也许这种变化看起来会像是回到了过去公众狂欢的时代。
A celebration of Christmas that upends the status quo instead of reinforcing it.
成为一种颠覆现状而非强化现状的圣诞节庆祝活动。
