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?
The global south does not include Australia and Japan in the same way the west does not include South America, even though it's in the western hemisphere. So you're right in a sense, most of the global south is in the northern hemisphere.
The global south generally includes counties outside of the imperialist triad of the USA, Europe and American vassal states in the Oceanic region. And excludes Russia.
You can use periphery if you prefer that word