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[–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (113 children)

If that was the sum of Soviet aesthetic then you might even have a point. However, the bulk of Soviet art celebrates the worker. On the other hand, labour is entirely invisible in pretty much all the solar-punk aesthetic.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (106 children)

    of the first eight image results on google, six of them have people in them, and of the ones that have people in them, 4/6 of them show labour idk what you're talkign about lmao

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (61 children)

    lmao people standing around enjoying environments that somebody built is not what depiction of labour looks like 🤣

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Tell me you've never worked manual labour without telling me you've never worked manual labour.

    There's always lads standing about, having a smoke, chatting shite, it's not all swinging hammers and rolling up your sleeves. Labour is hard, people take rests all the time without it being an official break.

    But regardless, to call a movement fascist because their art doesn't depict someone swinging a hammer in every image is bonkers.

    True liberation of the workers involves less work for the workers. As the Greeks put it, we should be eating figs, making art, and having orgies once our needs are met. Not working more for the sake of working. Solarpunk is utopian, utopia means rest and relaxation for the working class, not Sisyphean toil.

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