I know you want ot point towards fascism here, but I have 3 things to tell you there bucko.
1: Fascism is not anticapitalist.
2: Scott Adams is most assuredly not anticapitalist
3: Plenty of actual communist movements have been pretty socially conservative.
Fascism cosplays as anticapitalism. But criticism of capitalism doesn't have to be ideologically anticapitalist. Noticing the contradictions in capitalism is just thinking for yourself, but it doesn't necessarily lead to any particular ideology - it can even reinforce capitalism.
He’s not really an anti-capitalist though. Dilbert was always about mocking the stupidity of PMC office bureaucratics. Plenty of people in the 80s and 90s hated BS office job politics who were, none the less, conservative or otherwise right wing. They just thought capitalism was supposed to be burly dudes cutting down trees and shit.
Thing is I suspect these types of people wouldn’t be anti-capitalist even if they did. A lot of people who made “lol office jerbz suc” media were chuds. Cuz yeah office jobs suck, but you’re also getting paid a middle class income to sit inside an air conditioned building. It wasn’t till after the financial crash pushed a lot of people into the service industry that everyone realized that as boring as they were a lot of those jobs were pretty Cush.
hmm if only there was an ideology that combined anticapitalism with social conservatism
I know you want ot point towards fascism here, but I have 3 things to tell you there bucko.
1: Fascism is not anticapitalist.
2: Scott Adams is most assuredly not anticapitalist
3: Plenty of actual communist movements have been pretty socially conservative.
ur wrong. no I will not explain why
Fascism cosplays as anticapitalism. But criticism of capitalism doesn't have to be ideologically anticapitalist. Noticing the contradictions in capitalism is just thinking for yourself, but it doesn't necessarily lead to any particular ideology - it can even reinforce capitalism.
He’s not really an anti-capitalist though. Dilbert was always about mocking the stupidity of PMC office bureaucratics. Plenty of people in the 80s and 90s hated BS office job politics who were, none the less, conservative or otherwise right wing. They just thought capitalism was supposed to be burly dudes cutting down trees and shit.
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Thing is I suspect these types of people wouldn’t be anti-capitalist even if they did. A lot of people who made “lol office jerbz suc” media were chuds. Cuz yeah office jobs suck, but you’re also getting paid a middle class income to sit inside an air conditioned building. It wasn’t till after the financial crash pushed a lot of people into the service industry that everyone realized that as boring as they were a lot of those jobs were pretty Cush.