Let's talk about hipsters in a Marxist sense . . . - Lemmy Today

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/50038804 [https://lemmy.today/post/50038804] >As a commie who lived in Williamsburg when it was still cool . . . .I feel entitled to repost this response here. > > The superstructure of the hipster era saw all towns become Brooklyn, as gentrification and twee commodities invaded the space of all non-Boomer adults. > > Now, this is course is a reflection of the underlying material reality, where the proletariat is increasingly being concentrated in knowledge cities, while the petit bourgeois have been left to their pool dealerships in the exurbs. And as we know, superstructure follows base to reinforce it (we do know this, right)? > > In this case, the Brooklyn superstructure serves to deepen the divide of the proletariat and petite-bourgeois, enabling the large bourgeois tech titans to continue to privatize all space as the culture war continues.