You don't get to opt out of postmodernity. We're living it. McDonald's is part of it. Sprawl is part of it. The way we use the Internet is part of it. The only way to "kill" it is to destroy capitalism itself, and I'm not sure any of you would be all that jazzed about those prospects. So stop whining.
You don't get to opt out of postmodernity. We're living it. McDonald's is part of it. Sprawl is part of it...
Adrian Myers
Nathaniel Thompson
>destroy capitalism
>would not be jazzed up about it
You're not making any sense, comrade.
Logan Allen
speaking to the class traitors among us, tovarisch
Ethan Gomez
Even as a non-communist I agree. No one can afford the vast mass of products that capitalism offers us anyway. I haven't bought anything in the past 2 years that isn't food, besides a few T-Shirts and some books.
Limited consumption is possible and it kills the globalists.
Daniel Russell
>The only way to "kill" it is to destroy capitalism itselt
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(Though what's wrong with postmodernism?)
Christian Lee
>Limited consumption is possible
Well it sure is, I also haven't bought anything that wasn't food, booze or drugs and at least the last article mostly didn't go to the globalists.
>and it kills the globalists
Eh...to the same degree vegetarianism kills the meat industry- not so much. Limited consumption is more of a personal belief against capitalism, in the same way vegetarianism is a personal belief against killing animals. This belief is upheld in the sense that it modifies one's everyday life and one's choices.
But does it have a fundamentally practical outcome? Eh...not really. The only practical way to fight capitalism is through political/ideological acts, not through one's own lifestyle.
Besides, capitalism is quick to colonize anything that's potentially threatening to it, especially beliefs. If you leave your fight against it at a level of personal belief and everyday lifestyle, sooner or later that lifestyle is going to become an ideological product you're buying.
Luis Howard
What you say is true, and it's very depressing. It's a hopeless fight for for the few. One would need a couple of powerful friends and several high-energy fanatics to move something. Personally I don't have what it takes. The demoralization process got the best of me.
Unsure if time works for them or against them. What I could do is convince a few younger people in future through academic work or pamphlets and hope they take up the work where I left it.
Matthew Carter
How can communists seriously think ONLY revolution leads to the transition from one system to another?
If anything the end of feudalism was brought about by a multitude of developments and it could be said revolution was only a part, a shock, in that process.
I always feel weirded out when I see really knowledgeable historians and sociologists go on and claim that ONLY a violent coup d'etat or even world spanning uprising can bring about historical change and everything else is 'reformist bourgeois nonsense'.
Jose Clark
>revolutions always means violent coup d'etat
Asher Nguyen
Well what is it commies are after if not state power?