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Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playgr

Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

koheripbal 5y ago
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 for more explanation.
- birtoise 5y ago
- effingwewt 5y ago
truculent 5y ago
Whether or not you agree with the politics in question, it hardly seems surprising that a forum about bad working experiences and exploitation would respond positively to ideologies which profess to explain that abuse (in a way that doesn’t place blame on the individual).
- gota 5y ago
  Another way to look at it - under what system are they (claiming to be) suffering? Naturally they'd align with a competitor system, most likely the most prominent one Tbh, though, from my brief reading of the subreddit in question, I don't think it is particularly politically charged or cohesive. Sounds more like a lot of people with aligned complaints gathering to, well, complain Curious to see whether this will extrapolate from the US to other places, too
aahortwwy 5y ago
> One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative. While the growth of the subreddit has somewhat polluted the term on the Internet, "antiwork" referred for years before the subreddit to a particular line of socialist thought that often rejects labor outright. Texts like The Right to be Lazy (1883), Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), and Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) are all decidedly Marxist and indicate that this line of thinking has a pretty long lineage in socialist circles.

koheripbal 5y ago

dang 5y ago
Please don't do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 for more explanation.
birtoise 5y ago
effingwewt 5y ago

truculent 5y ago

Whether or not you agree with the politics in question, it hardly seems surprising that a forum about bad working experiences and exploitation would respond positively to ideologies which profess to explain that abuse (in a way that doesn’t place blame on the individual).

gota 5y ago
Another way to look at it - under what system are they (claiming to be) suffering? Naturally they'd align with a competitor system, most likely the most prominent one Tbh, though, from my brief reading of the subreddit in question, I don't think it is particularly politically charged or cohesive. Sounds more like a lot of people with aligned complaints gathering to, well, complain Curious to see whether this will extrapolate from the US to other places, too

aahortwwy 5y ago

> One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative. While the growth of the subreddit has somewhat polluted the term on the Internet, "antiwork" referred for years before the subreddit to a particular line of socialist thought that often rejects labor outright. Texts like The Right to be Lazy (1883), Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), and Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) are all decidedly Marxist and indicate that this line of thinking has a pretty long lineage in socialist circles.