Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Working class counter-culture in retreat

Theory and Practice no. 5, 1991 · 135 words

But today we are see- searching for communal life. It ing a retreat of work- is obvious that this searching Ding class counteroften leads nowhere. calture. Capitalism is de- This is one of the reasons for stroying references to pre- the enormous successes of the capitalist life. In Brazil, in Protestant sects in Latin Amerone or two generations, this ica, who give a sense of comwill have disappeared. munal identity to the individual That is true. But the over- abandoned in this capitalist deall functioning of capi- sert, where they don't feel part talism is provoking, as a of anything. It is up tousto offer reaction against atomisation, a l other alternatives.

That is the chat to be utopian socialism, in a The urban poor have come to the fore in a humber of

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