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English
Etymology
From lifestyle + -ism.
Noun
lifestylism (uncountable)
- (derogatory) The appropriation of something as a lifestyle, without regard to its underlying tenets or meaning.
1982 August 14, Ian Daniels, “Nazis In Chicago”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 5:At the heart of the SL's [Spartacist League] attitude is as simple but insidious notion: lesbians and gay men should not bother fighting for their own liberation because that is "lifestylism"; rather, we should become closeted members of a straight-dominated sect and hope we are not forgotten after the revolution.
1998, George McKay, DIY Culture, page 108:We went beyond squatting as lifestylism firstly by barricading our squats; secondly by taking over the street itself […]
2010, Leonard Sweet, The Three Hardest Words:In the cult of commodified lifestylism, even religion has become one more box on the shelf—promising a personal benefit along with conditioning shampoo, long-lasting antiperspirant, breath-sweetening toothpaste […]
2013, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Earth at Risk, page 192:Instead, many fall victim to illusions of reformism, bourgeois democracy, technotopianism, lifestylism, and other bogus schemes.
2020, Gary Chartier, Chad Van Schoelandt, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought, Routledge, →ISBN:For if anarchism is just revolutionary workerism, then it loses its historical character as a libertarian critique or interpretation of socialism; yet if anarchism leaves its socialist roots completely in the past […] then it arguably becomes something else, perhaps the supposedly aimless lifestylism derided famously by Murray Bookchin.