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?

    • innocentlurker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "Carny" is short for "carnival worker", so someone who works the rides or the games at a carnival, especially when it's a traveling carnival as opposed to like Disneyland.

      Here's a great parody of American traveling carneys in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-43YBGgpc