village shops vs. supermarkets - which one should we go to?

[mentalbunny]

I'm confused. Am I right in saying the petty bourgeousie run the village shops (butcher, baker, etc)? If so do we support them, or do we go to J Sainsbury and its ilk, thus supporting a huge corporation? I'm in knots, we can't really support ourselbes from our own plot of land which is what I see as the ideal, so we have to choose. Whre do you buy your food? What should i do?

[BOZG]

Supermarkets have a fair greater range of goods to steal so go there.

[suffianr]

Big supermarket chains, if Naomi Klein is to be believed, are trying to engineer a wholesome family lifestyle, creating and supporting brand-consciousness, the image of ideal consumerism.

I think most supermarket chains are obtuse, grotesque mostrosities, big fucking propaganda factories manufacturing wholesome excuses to waste your resources on things that you don't really want or will never need.

Personally, I don't buy that.

Yes, I roll my own cigarettes.

[BOZG]

Yes, I roll my own cigarettes.

You rebel

[Frosty]

I would definitely go for the village shops.
It is better to support people who try to earn a living as honest, hard-working shop owners than huge capital-controlled, exploiting, consumerist supermarket chain shit. Here we have those monsters on every second corner. And of course my mother insists to go to this Maxi shit. Last saturday i was ill for the rest of the day after going there...seriously, i got the same feeling as when i visited a concentration camp 6 years ago.

[mentalbunny]

Quote: from Frosty on 12:16 pm on Nov. 17, 2002
I would definitely go for the village shops.
It is better to support people who try to earn a living as honest, hard-working shop owners than huge capital-controlled, exploiting, consumerist supermarket chain shit. Here we have those monsters on every second corner. And of course my mother insists to go to this Maxi shit. Last saturday i was ill for the rest of the day after going there...seriously, i got the same feeling as when i visited a concentration camp 6 years ago.

Any brits here? Whata bout the co-op? I reckon it's safe to go there.

[Guardia Bolivariano]

village shops suport the people! And kill the monopolys!

[MJM]

Better to support the petty bourgeoisie than the capitalist. They only aspire to become what the latter are already.
They can be won over to our way of thinking I believe, as I would say I was once petty bourgeoisie myself. Some of them may well be commies like us who have just given up hope, but if a realistic chance arose or the right leader/s came along they would gladly join with us.

[Kez]

Village Shops mostly work their fuckin arses off for a living, working 7 days a week 15 hours a day.
They work harder than a large section of the working class

i believe that although economically they are petit bourgeusis (as they control the means of production) they are socially working class and will remain that way until they grow to have factories etc

Also, people working unnder teh village shops have better treatment than the ppl who work in factories

[bluerev002]

i like going to the village markets, although this one village market is now like a freaking valley market. there are four of them alredy!! they started small and now their getting big, so theres a problem... but all in all i support the village market.

[sypher]

Quote: from TavareeshKamo on 11:19 pm on Nov. 23, 2002

i believe that although economically they are petit bourgeusis (as they control the means of production) they are socially working class and will remain that way until they grow to have factories etc


except society look more highly on them than the working class because they use capitalist free market to make more money that "joe blow."

[SentinelofDestiny]

well, i hope the Co-Op is ok, because i frickin' work there! But it's ok, I don't work very hard... infact I'm bringing them down from the inside... ;)

yes, I'm a brit by the way.