What's the Marxist analysis on neets? Are they lumpenproletariat?
Would I be executed or put in a gulag in a revolution?
meow
You'll be given job training and meaningful employment end the resulting socialization will cure your neetdom
Sageru
specifically marxist analysis i don't care for, but here's my personal analysis: they reflect the sheer state of economic development we've reached. for all the whining and complaining about the economic tribulations of today, or all the obvious incentive to go "ohh, they're a failure of capitalism, they show how bad things have gotten" they in-fact show how good things have gotten. we didn't have as many NEETs in the past because it was not economically viable to support them, and parents and family and the state would all refuse to do so. now we're rich enough that we can allow people to subsist while actively doing nothing and not even pretending that they're ever going to do something. this reflects material development rather than regression, even if it creates a new challenge. (how to get these people to work etc when it is in fact perfectly possible and viable for them not to.)
it was not, in fact, a better world where such people would be press-ganged by starvation, their parents, and the state into becoming coal miners. it was a worse one. this is dispositionally hard to accept for the neurotic pessimists of the world who want their communism to come in the form of collapse rather than transcendence, but it's true. the world is going better than you think. this will be doubly hard to accept if you are a depressed NEET, but it's true.
>>2899720This is only true for the first world. There are countries where being a neet is unviable.
>>2899720We used to also have places for these people, church institutions, the university, and so on. The primacy of capitalism and the destruction of communal life has kind of removed all these spaces that society has developed for neurotypical men (large percentage of neets i would assume).
>>2899731Yet there are third world neets. Although I imagine they either live in the less screwed up parts of the third world, come from relatively well off families or from smaller families. Or maybe they're dependent on transfer of money from relatives working in more developed countries.
>>2899738non-neurotypical*
>>2899681A lot of people don't like alienated wage-labor and will do as much as they can to avoid if it at all possible.