Sooner or later leftists will have to deal with the issue that capitalism has made many people used to wanton excess and sooner or later we’ll have to legit tell everyone we can’t have plastic treats and luxury produce or cruises instantly available year round and it’s gonna make so many people mad and call you a big meanie worse than stalin over it. It will not be popular at all but someone’s gotta hold a firm no or the planet will never stop collapsing. We can’t save the planet by living exactly how we do now just with a communist banner over it we have to take a loss sorry, shein product cycles shouldn’t have been normalized to begin with.
The banana discourse really separated the wheat from the chaff of which “lefties” actually want a global workers revolution and which ones just want more stuff to be free
I think what’s often missed is that these luxuries are consolation prizes. They serve to placate and distract a Proletariat from their alienation from their communities and their passions, from how they sacrifice their health through coerced, largely meaningless labor out of fear of homelessness and destitution, and how outside of said luxuries they are unable to take advantage of the fruits of their labors.
And so I think leftists are reacting to the question “How would I feel if I woke up tomorrow and suddenly all these things I enjoy were gone?” when they ought to be asking “In the process of building a world where access to food, healthcare, housing, and even community was no longer linked to the whims of an employer or corporate entity, how important would access to a banana or luxury cruise be to me?”