I heard that Marx was, ironically, rather financially irresponsible and often had money troubles. Once he had money he spent it all on parties and nice food and such.
Well then do i have an opportunity to preach the good word of syndicalism to you.
Sidebar, actually accounting for human behavior isn’t as simple as telling people to not be cruel to one another.
This is blatant consumerist propaganda!
Also shopping not fun. I want to walk into a store and pick up Balsamic Glaze and leave. I don’t want to have to assess the minute differences in weight, cost, and quality of 30 different products that are all in the same race to win over my dollar and maximize their profits.
That’s one reason why refill store is good.
Have you ever been to a free shop?
Only at OPs mom’s house…
Tbh I don’t get “shopping”/“retail therapy.” Obviously I have wants for luxuries, but usually I pine after these for months and hold off on the decision until I feel I have saved enough and worked hard enough to justify it. Spontaneously going out to buy luxury items is a much rarer impulse for me.
Ah but have you tried just never thinking through the consequences of your actions? It seems like about 75% of people never do.
Iddon’t buy shit I need, but I can get behind the feeling. When I walk through the hardware store I would like to buy a grinder, a saw, a drill and many more things. Not that I need any of them, because most is already in lower quality at home, but I really would have fun buying shit.
You can still shop under communism
I get it now 🥲
- Boris Yeltzin in an American 🇺🇸🦅Grocery Store:
That’s more of a climate critique between Russia and the US.
Right.
Because communism doesn’t exist, it’s completely free of problems.
(not /s, by the way.)
A communist US would still grow oranges and peaches.
A capitalist Siberia still wouldn’t.
If we have a communist revolution, then we can all go shopping at the free store!
Artists not having to worry about money means they’ll all disappear though 😭 /s
💖🧸 come on Marxi, let’s go party 🎉💖
My brother in the Invisible Pink Unicorn, you can still shop in communism. And whatever you need is free.
No you see capitalism is commerce, and both have always existed. Somehow everyone knows this true fact, which is super normal.
Obviously ancient history shows humans never had any trinkets, toys, or keepsakes until the Industrial Revolution /s
I think he probably considered this - part of commodity fetishism?
Nah that’s when you get off on 5 tons of iron ore that you only symbolically own
Yeah but under communism you have a leader who puts a collar on you and calls you a good puppy and you waf at them :3
I’d like to wear a collar and be called a good boy. That’s about as far as the fantasy goes. I don’t really like the puppy play stuff. Certainly things about it I like but not as a whole. Also if I may inquire, what is uniquely communist about that?
To be fair, Usagi did go on to cure death and create a neo-socialist workers paradise while bloodlessly uniting all the people of earth…
All the people of earth at that point were the few people in Japan that she happened to save from a global freeze. So, bloodlessly is probably not the right term for that.
Eeh, Great Freeze was an ecological disaster caused by sailor chaos. When Usagi is interred on the Silver Throne after revealing herself as Neo-Queen serenity, she restores the population to their rightful place on earth, then loses her daughter to time manipulation hijinks, which prompts her to ally with Sailor Mars and embark on her great crusade to unite the Sailors and find her lost child, accompanied by her loyal yet enigmatically powerful servant Mamodor…
or, wait hang on…
More evidence yet that Capitalism wins over Marxist-Leninism the end.
compelling argument.
