“Muh Soviet in a supermarket” story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald’s in the USSR, so they’re feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.
Link You can’t see this through Hexbear because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism
Meanwhile on Sunday I went to my local grocery store and they had no carts. They said they removed carts because people kept stealing by filling them up and walking out the door. I wandered around a few minutes and wasn’t able to find much on my list because they were out of what I needed. And then I left without getting anything and ate out instead.
Sounds like capitalism grocery store isn’t so good after all
Communist theory is thousand page tomes. Liberal theory is a series of unverifiable anecdotes.
There is actually a pretty sizeable corpus of liberal philosophy and theory, but it’s not really meant for the average non-bourgeois lib, especially since those types of guys are generally pretty uncurious and operate mostly on vibes (and propaganda)
All the important foundational liberal economic theory was written before or during Marx’s lifetime and Marx tore it to shreds. He dedicates tens of thousands of words and dozens of citations to discussing Adam Smith alone, and he actually kinda likes Adam Smith. All liberal economics since Marx has been lame attempts at repudiating or obfuscating the existence of surplus value, or class in general.
Go on then, dismiss me with your hexbear memes and be gone.
So pouty
context for the Supermarket
The great American supermarket lie
author of “Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race”
So while middle-class consumers enjoyed a bounty of cheap and convenient food, small farmers, farmworkers, low-income consumers and supermarket employees suffered to make it all possible. Instead of embodying the supposedly inherent superiority of capitalism, the supermarket demonstrated how it produced winners and losers.
Real choice is going into the cereal aisle in a grocery store and seeing eighteen different brands of HFCS all owned by the same company.
So many times when I go to the grocery store I end up thinking of the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin’s dad loses his shit over peanut butter
