Sighs

[sombrefan]

What I would give for a good dose of socialism in the fandom right now.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

How do you see that working out?

[simonf.livejournal.com]

Given the current trend of "I don't mind if the corporations trample all over us", not well.

[biogalkin.livejournal.com]

I afraid you might have very vague idea about what socialism is about :)))))

fandom corporate apologists

[quotergal (from livejournal.com)]

I too get pretty tired of the noisy fandom (and almost bootlicking) attitude of some folks: "if it's good for business and the bottom line, that's *all* I need to hear. You artisty/fans/non-corporate folks just don't *get* how the world works. " *sigh* As if, and bleh. It's enough to make me want to join a commune. Again. ; >

I rather like what Joss had to say on the matter during the '07-'08 WGA strike (talking in this case about the movie industry, and then in general...)

"... a machine that absolutely and unhesitatingly would dismantle every union, remove every benefit, turn every worker into a cowed wage-slave in the singular pursuit of profit. (There is a machine. Its program is ‘profit’. This is not a myth.)" - Joss Whedon, http://whedonesque.com/comments/14650

I don't speak up on the subject more because... no one seems to react or care much when I do...

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[areteus.livejournal.com]

Quiet scholarly Marxist socialism or something more extreme with a Stalinist bent?

Of course, at some point, if you get left wing enough you look sufficiently right wing to pass as a facist...