I think they're joking, but, yeah, that is a really weird Left thing. I understand having a class analysis about who can travel but I don't pay attention to people who say not to do it at all. Traveling is one of the most meaningful experiences I have in life. You should still go, if you can!

And it sounds more like they're making fun of influencers posting those videos which is understandable—not necessarily tourists just being awed. But if they made fun of tourists is like New Yawkers making fun of tourists for standing around and clogging the streets looking up at skyscrapers, or Parisians making fun of tourists who don't speak perfect French, or whatever other city making fun of outsiders. Everyone does it in different ways. You're going to be impressed if you go because you're not taking that extraordinary feat of humanity for granted.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they're joking

At least two were on here and they sounded pretty serious.

I can perhaps understand the analysis that modern bourgeois tourism isn't really sustainable, but I think "never leave the commune you were born in" is a little radical. The USSR actually had a good variety of travel within the Union, Cuba has state run beach resorts, I think there can be a sustainable model of tourism.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Here's a travel brochure of the various states within the Soviet Union.