The difference is those groups promote culture for culture's sake. Capitalism does not. Culture is only promoted if there is profit to be made off promoting it. As such what culture exists is severely inorganic and dependent on market forces rather than being some proxy of the actual ideaspace of the community.

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mghackerlady 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

well, to be pedantic, stalinist tendencies of socialism (and leninist inspired movements as a whole), tend to prioritise culture as a way to communicate the ideals of the party.

Capitalism, in its most pure form, puts profit before anything else in any form of work

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asdff 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

It isn't as heavy handed as people might have assumed. I can't find the exact quote now but there is one from a filmmaker saying they had more creative freedom under the USSR than the US. In the USSR there were some things you couldn't talk about directly but subtext was often fine. In the US there was that going on as well, but you also had the need for the film to make money and merchandize other downstream products and businesses that lead to a loss of absolute creative control in favor of supporting these efforts.

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mghackerlady 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

I believe it was George Lucas talking about some soviet friends

	▲	asdff a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks. I was even going to mention how George made some decisions in star wars arguably to further toy sales.