lifestylism

English

Etymology

lifestyle +‎ -ism

Noun

lifestylism (uncountable)

1. (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^[1], 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.