Am I a bohemian...

[NecroCommie]

...If I have lived in 4 different cities during the past year? More than 2 months in each. Understandably political activities became difficult when I no more had a distinct home town. But god-damn was it artistic! :cool:

[Widerstand]

It appears so. The question is, is bohemianism reactionary?

[leftace53]

LIFESTYLISt!

[NecroCommie]

Hahaa! There you are wrong!
Lifestylism is the illusion that one can change something with lifestyle.
Checkmate!!! :D

[Who?]

It appears so. The question is, is bohemianism reactionary?

Althought they do contribute to the gentrification of some neighborhoods I wouldn't call them distinctly reactionary.

[NecroCommie]

I have actually been on the move precicely because of gentrification. During my lifetime, the average living expenses on my parents' neighbourhood have grown to be four times as large as what they were in the beginning of 90's. That is no small increase in prize.

[leftace53]

You can change yourself!
But also, moving around a lot is fun, you just have to live in shoddy lofts for it to be artisitic.

[Who?]

I wasn't necessarily saying that gentrification is universally associated with bohemianism. I was just stating that in certain cases they contribute to the gentrification of certain neighborhoods, in Amerika this is probably more prevalent than abroad. For example Bedford-Stuyvesant which is historically one of the largest black communities in the country has been gentrified lately by the recent influx of artists and bohemians.

[danyboy27]

you are a citizen of the world.

[Pirate Utopian]

Bohemians are boring.

[NecroCommie]

You can change yourself!
But also, moving around a lot is fun, you just have to live in shoddy lofts for it to be artisitic.
Well, thats kind of what it was. I did not rent apartments, but rooms.

[Obs]

I don't know, you tell me. Are you Czech?

[NonServiam]

I would define contemporary Bohemianism as a form of Escapism or deliberately transient lifestyle. Hypocritically, many Anarcho-Primitivists seem to subscribe to these tendencies.

I think it reflects the broader problem that radicals for the most part are no longer connected to land despite the rhetoric asserting it so.

This is evident in how so many radicals feel they need to travel to Chiapas in order to "have solidarity" with the Zapatistas. It seems radicals often neglect to see the manifestations of struggle within their localities and instead visualize it as a large abstract thing.

This again reflects the Lefts failure of organizing localized movements and instead attempting to create broad "popular movements". I believe many fail to see that without a base of localized struggle, broad popular movements will inevitably fail.

[Widerstand]

I would define contemporary Bohemianism as a form of Escapism or deliberately transient lifestyle. Hypocritically, many Anarcho-Primitivists seem to subscribe to these tendencies.

I think it reflects the broader problem that radicals for the most part are no longer connected to land despite the rhetoric asserting it so.

This is evident in how so many radicals feel they need to travel to Chiapas in order to "have solidarity" with the Zapatistas. It seems radicals often neglect to see the manifestations of struggle within their localities and instead visualize it as a large abstract thing.

This again reflects the Lefts failure of organizing localized movements and instead attempting to create broad "popular movements". I believe many fail to see that without a base of localized struggle, broad popular movements will inevitably fail.

this.

so much.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I don't know, you tell me. Are you Czech?
zing!

[fa2991]

LIFESTYLISt!

Are there lifestylist Marxist-Leninists?

[Il Medico]

Are there lifestylist Marxist-Leninists?
Well, if you consider living in your mom's basement and raging at people who don't like your glorious Stalin a life style.... [/Sectarianism]

[Rusty Shackleford]

my daily clothing
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T906FkLnwlb0eM:http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj474/chase158/TheProle.jpg&t=1

[leftace53]

my daily clothing
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T906FkLnwlb0eM:http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj474/chase158/TheProle.jpg&t=1

You are a plumber?

[Rusty Shackleford]

You are a plumber?
no, im a lifestylist marxist-leninist

[Os Cangaceiros]

my daily clothing
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T906FkLnwlb0eM:http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj474/chase158/TheProle.jpg&t=1

lolz

[fa2991]

no, im a lifestylist marxist-leninist

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8168/plumber.jpg

Fixed.

[Rusty Shackleford]

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8168/plumber.jpg

Fixed.
:lol:

[MarxSchmarx]

I wasn't necessarily saying that gentrification is universally associated with bohemianism. I was just stating that in certain cases they contribute to the gentrification of certain neighborhoods, in Amerika this is probably more prevalent than abroad. For example Bedford-Stuyvesant which is historically one of the largest black communities in the country has been gentrified lately by the recent influx of artists and bohemians.

the reason bohemianism is associated with gentrification is because bohemians are overwhelmingly spawned of people with fairly bourgeois values. Bohemians are overwhelmingly educated children of the gentrifiers. When they come in, it signals to wealthy people that "those" people no longer inhabit the spot.

[Pavlov's House Party]

my daily clothing
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T906FkLnwlb0eM:http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj474/chase158/TheProle.jpg&t=1

i actually own that exact kind of coveralls for splitting wood, painting and shit :P