Greatest Quote Ever

[Nox]

When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.


Till Lindemann Grew up in East Germany and is the lead singer of one of the world's most popular bands, Rammstein.

[Susurrus]

Good quote, but individualism is not the problem, capitalism is.

[Iron Felix]

Classical individualism and the perverted Capitalist version are 2 entirely different things.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I would say that the capitalists try and convince people that to be an individual you must buy things, so the two are related only so far as when one tries and has a negative effect on the other.

[Nox]

Good quote, but individualism is not the problem, capitalism is.

This isn't about which is the bigger problem, it's just a very nice general leftist quote I found.

[DeBon]

Very nice find, comrade.
I find anti-materialist/consumerist quotes to be my favorite poetry sometimes.
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