Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Socialist realism celebrates the worker as creator with muscles straining, tools in hand, actively building the world. Labor is heroic, collective, and visibly transformative. The aesthetic screams: "WE made this."

On the other hand, solar-punk envisions society after the work is done with comfortable citizens enjoying green tech built by unseen hands. The aesthetic whispers: "Look what grew while no one was laboring.

Socialist realism celebrates the struggle; solar-punk erases it.

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@carbonara@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@yogthos I don't agree with this take at all! A lot of solarpunk fiction specifically describes or depicts community building and collaboration outside of the margins of capital and/or transaction.

I agree the genre does not focus on "how to get to that future", but it certainly shows the work needed to keep it, which is not that different from the one to achieve it: work together, build together, for the good of all.

I think solarpunk, soc. realism and revolutionary art complement each other.