Pictures of the DPRK (North Korea)

Makan@lemmygrad.ml · 4 months ago

Pictures of the DPRK (North Korea)

Hexamerous [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 4 months ago

The people have a range of activities to keep them occupied and busy…

But only so they don’t think about the miserable and oppressed they are.

Makan@lemmygrad.ml · 4 months ago

If you have a range of activities to do, then that’s a good thing.

Honestly, Herbert Marcuse’s “consumerism” theory is kinda flawed.

Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 4 months ago

Consider Ellen Willis: (Sourced from “Masses, Elites, and Rebels”)

If white radicals are serious about revolution, they are going to have to discard a lot of bullshit ideology created by and for educated white middle-class males. A good example of what has to go is the popular theory of consumerism. As expounded by many leftist thinkers, notably Marcuse, this theory maintains that consumers are psychically manipulated by the mass media to crave more and more consumer goods, and thus power an economy that depends on constantly expanding sales. […] When a woman spends a lot of money and time decorating her home or herself, or hunting down the latest in vacuum cleaners, it is not idle self-indulgence (let alone the result of psychic manipulation) but a healthy attempt to find outlets for her creative energies within her circumscribed role. [8]

Makan@lemmygrad.ml · 4 months ago

Honestly, it’s a good part of the essay, though I have a lot of disagreements with it overall.

ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net · 4 months ago

Fr if DRPK residents were miserable and oppressed but still getting bread and circuses, they’re doing better than most countries