Everyone made fun of that article a couple of months ago about how everyone in rural walmarts is a tapped in goth discord kitten now or something and full disclosure i did not read that shit but my first impulse is that they are absolutely correct. “Normies” barely exist anymore
@CDMorlock@ZOAMAXXING@piebyfour We all live in an urban economy now. Even our farmers in the middle of nowhere are integrated into wage labor. Traditional agrarian economies only exist on the very fringes. You are a neo-narodnik with no peasantry
@ZOAMAXXING@CDMorlock@piebyfour it kinda seems like you think the reason why people who dress ways you don’t like exist is that their existence has been engineered to prevent communism
@CDMorlock@ZOAMAXXING@piebyfour Unmarxist view. The development of productive forces is determined by the concentration of capital. If population were everything India would have the best or second best economy in the world
@CDMorlock@ZOAMAXXING@piebyfour Urban civilizations with populations of childless workers are a pretty modern, industrial phenomenon. Not good or bad, just a fact of life shifting away from kinship and agriculture as the main centers of life
@ZOAMAXXING@CDMorlock@piebyfour I would argue that the material basis is that advanced specialization of labor and productive forces allow the mass production of cosmetic goods and life without children for farm labor
@ChornyT@haravayin_hogh People are willing to die for an economic zone though. That’s what you’re describing. The persuasive power of the economic zone is economic, it’s money. The persuasive power of the nation is… what, Norman Rockwell paintings? Tired old cliches?
@CDMorlock@ZOAMAXXING@piebyfour So why are ACP type guys so absolutely focused on the aesthetic? Why do you see them bitch about tattoos more than they discuss class consciousness? It’s just an attempt to build a counteraesthetic, a mirror within be very same framing. It’s idealist