The problem is that solar-punk is entirely compatible with social fascism. It sells a vision of a comfortable society that sweeps labour that underpins its functioning under the rug. This is largely how the west functions already. We outsource labour to the global south where it’s brutally exploited, but then peddle the whole Nodric “socialism” where the exploiters live in comfort.

The recognition of the role of labour in society has to be part of any genuinely socialist aesthetic.