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by ekianjo 1031 days ago
Its not counterculture if the white house has your flag front and center. You understand the meaning of counter, right?
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Is that your sole criterion? Removing all gender roles and minimizing the importance of reproduction and the family unit is a pretty big shakeup in the past 20-30 years.

Must the movement be struggling to be considered? If it is just "what the majority political parties agree is unpalatable" then I guess we could say actual socialism or anti capitalism is there.

Counter-cultures aren't counter to whatever was mainstream 20-30 years ago, they're counter to whatever is mainstream today. Actual socialism is not and will never be well represented by corporate media, but is actually fairly common in the general population. On the other hand, those who are called (but do not call themselves) 'TERFs' seem like the perfect example of a counter-culture.