I used to think that people focusing so much ire on boomers was anti-Marxist because the main contradiction in American society is class (settler / indigenous, bourgeois / proletarian) but I’ve started to wonder if this profound and really ubiquitous age-consciousness (ageism) is actually just a step toward class consciousness? Like I’m guessing most people who hate boomers don’t really have a problem with homeless boomers?
I’m thinking also of how women in South Korea are refusing to get married or have kids and how this will basically destroy South Korea (albeit slowly) if trends continue. Women in South Korea are objectively correct in identifying men as their oppressors, but is this awareness of the patriarchy a step toward class consciousness and revolutionary thought or is it a dead end? I guess it depends on the person as well as circumstances.
It still seems like, regardless of how hard the bourgeoisie pushes the idea that only individuals exist and anyone can rise to the top if they just work hard and smart enough, large numbers of people are possibly developing nascent class consciousness, which can lead toward an understanding of historical materialism and scientific socialism. This is basically an extended “is it gonna be barbarism or socialism?” meme but I just thought I’d post it here to see what people thought.
its one of those things that can lead to correct conclusions on accident but it needs to be corrected before it leads to dumbass shit
Yeah, because it’s not rooted in actual political economic theory, it can be easily co-opted by liberal bourgeois propagandists and fascists.
If you hate the concept of boomer because they’re out of touch and have it better than you, that can easily be shifted to sell you garbage marketed for “youth” or get you to start coming to conclusions that the reason they had it better was because of war and segregation.
It’s important to reveal the economic basis for the massive shift in stability between generations driven mainly by the erosion of all public services and the wholesale selloff of all control over industry to private interests who are now shifting into a primitive financialization model which kneecaps production and will lead to total ruination.