Communists are against consumerism and luxury production as a general rule, on this site alone there’s a lot of mocking of treats, society needs bread but does it need circuses? At what point is asceticism good and when is it reactionary?
Communists are against consumerism and luxury production as a general rule, on this site alone there’s a lot of mocking of treats, society needs bread but does it need circuses? At what point is asceticism good and when is it reactionary?
revolutionaries are ascetics and obsessive disciplinarians so their children can be artists.
that we have people who are/seem that way is because we're in the before period, not the after. popular art fucking exploded in the USSR after the periods of trouble, movies, operas, books, art education, available to all and plentifully. they may not have had as many luxury goods but a soviet citizen got to see more art, had more leisure time, and was much better read than an american