@lich_silvae@masto.fediverse.games
2026-04-22 16:39 UTC
@burnitdown The term itself was coined by American president Herbert Hoover in 1928. You're correct that capitalism is intentionally isolationist but "rugged individualism" as a concept was to describe an American way of life.
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@burnitdown@beige.party 2026-04-22 18:26
@lich_silvae the USA is not exceptional. capitalism demands atomisation of the working class. "rugged individualism" is that atomisation. it is present everywhere in colonial, capitalist society. Marx wrote about this in Kapital.