Meaning

(derogatory) The appropriation of something as a lifestyle, without regard to its underlying tenets or meaning..

Example Sentences

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.

We went beyond squatting as lifestylism firstly by barricading our squats; secondly by taking over the street itself[…]

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[…]

Instead, many fall victim to illusions of reformism, bourgeois democracy, technotopianism, lifestylism, and other bogus schemes.

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.

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When Should You Use Lifestylism?

Use lifestylism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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