• deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    3 months ago

    Personally, this sounds like that ‘socialist pauperism’ that Deng Xiaoping criticized. To me, it sounds more like a joke ideology deriving from an aesthetic; not unlike the western perspective on the Soviet Union or the PRC as a static, unchanging entity of grayness.

    Davel’s comment is more insightful onto this

  • davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    That’s really a question for the people and the material conditions. Do people want to live that way? Or must they live that way because of wartime conditions and/or direly scarce resources?

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Historically, some people did lived like that or similar, many religious communes comes to mind, but again the very reason they lived like that is that they were outcasts of the mainstream society, and it was never on any big scale. Marx was right when he criticized that, and it shows intelectual idealism and tendence to oversimplification of its proponents, like the short Procrustes bed of societies.