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A reminder to any right-wingers who may be lurking - Marx is immensely based in this household
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this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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He'd probably would have wrote a chapter about how the weirdness of the ploretariat are persecuted as "degeneracy", but is celebrated as "quirkiness" when they're of the bourgeoisie. (Would not be surprised it he already did)
Does he not speak of how organised and collectivist Bourgeois/Capitalists are seen as productive and good (because they're rich) yet an organised and collectivist proletariat is unproductive and bad (because it makes the rich less rich). It's fine for the rich to gather wealth and help eachother get rich but it's not okay for the common person to help those around them rise to equal footing.
Where organised and collectivist = Quirky and Free-spirited;
Productive = Cool;
Good = Fun;
Unproductive = Uncool;
Bad = Unfun.
Modern society labels personality quirks and non-conformity as Cool and Fun when the person displaying those traits has money and status.
But have a poor person display the same and they're weird, or odd, creepy or sad. Otherwise Uncool and Unfun.
Author's note: I spent way to long typical out this shitpost.
Hot take: this has nothing to do with modern society. This is a universal in all societies. People naturally praise and admire those with more status, beauty, and resources. If you don't intrinsically understand this, you are probably on the spectrum. Which, of course you are. You're on Lemmy.
Well, yeah. I guess society always has. But you took my use of "modern society" hyperbole as like, today's modern society when I really meant modern society in the frame of reference of the people experiencing it at any given moment in history.
Checkmate, lemmy autist. Lol