Jeez, that line really irked me too. When writers use Marxist terminology as a crutch for lazy writing and half baked thinking, it just annoys me because I wish

Jeez, that line really irked me too. When writers use Marxist terminology as a crutch for lazy writing and half baked thinking, it just annoys me because I wish they'd show and not tell. It's not the "vacuous, petit bourgeois taste" that is hated, it's the fact that they're "normies" who should know their place and be shamed for "appropriation" of aesthetics. And of course, neither one has really anything to do with the fact that minimalism is generally a useful design choice because it allows people to actually make choices about what they want their set of possessions to actually mean to them, by virtue of having as few as possible.