/lit/ - Literature

>Rail against mindless, materialistic consumer plebs and their filthy acquisition of things

>spend lots of money on pretty hardcover books, lust after other people's bookshelves

Zizek hardly has a hatred for consumption.

>>7521510
Wow, did Schopenhauer really say this? God damn

>>7521538
this is true

>>7521510
>there are people on /lit/ right who think consumption = capitalism

More wisdom from the Overman.

Read Thoreau. It's true that a lot of pseudo-intellectuals hate consumption for because it is trendy, but that doesn't mean there aren't good reasons to be critical of consumerism.

>>7521510
Have you ever read Zizek?

Don't bother responding to me, we both know the truth.

>>7521998

I tried reading living in the end times but found it incomprehensible despite understanding his layman lectures on YouTube related to the book.

>>7521510
>As if food and clothes, as if eating or dressing were bad.
They are. Go back to the cynics, medieval hermits, or even the OT wisdom books.

>>7522087
Why??????????????????????????????

fuck your icycalm meme op

>>7521510
If you think Marxism is against material goods or consuming you're a silly pleb who would do well to end himself, dear original poster.

>>7522087
love this painting

>>7522087
Awesome picture anon

>>7522087
you must mean the based and ancient Jain dighambara sect

As far as I can tell, most critique of capitalism is primarily humanistic & moralistic-- humanistic in the sense that capitalism is critiqued on the grounds of dehumanization, on the grounds of alteration in people's perception of the self & others (value), and on the grounds of illusion, as in people believing that capitalism is a good thing for humanity-- moralistic in the sense that capitalism is immoral period, as it necessarily implicates exploitation, oppression, and domination.

However, Marxism and critique of capitalism unfortunately began during a paradigm shift in the humanities towards anti-humanism and amoralism, for these humanism and moralism are viewed as products of the Enlightenment, and in our "post-Enlightenment", "post-modern" thought, we are skeptical of system-building and value in general.

Therefore, most critics of capitalism these days are torn between a genuine moralistic impulse to attack what's evil in capitalism and a strong inter-social awareness that any realism or system-building will be viewed by other academics & authors as hegemonic or bearing the seeds of totalitarianism or whatever.

Basically, critics of capitalism are in an unfortunate position these days: they want value, real value, but they've become skeptical if not paranoid about value due to past abuse of systems of value.

>>7521510
When I read that quote I think of bored rich people, or complaining about quality of products, or vain people complaining about other peoples style,

I don't really see how this would be an attack on the economic system of capitalism

>>7522639
Sounds only like a problem of academics, but not, for example, activists. Academic critiques are what's fun - like Zizek. But this isn't what it should all be about anyway.

>>7522639
>marxism
>post-modern

you what m8? marxism is as modernist as you can get.

>>7522685
Maybe Marxism par excellence, but there's no denying that the post-modern critical platter at any university is identity politics, psychoanalysis, and Marxist critical theory.

>>7522706
they're as marxist as foucault is a nietzschean

don't trust french kidnappers of ideology

>>7522606
>that one dude with the glasses