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Exactly, the recognition of the central role of labour in society has to be part of any genuinely socialist aesthetic. Solar-punk sells a vision of a comfortable society while ignoring the labour that underpins it, how things are created is left entirely up to your imagination. Thus, solar-punk aesthetic becomes equally compatible with people enjoying the fruits of their own labour or a society built on slavery.
I definitely think it can be combined with socialist realism, and serve as good art for a coherent socialist party to use as agitprop. Clearly the ideas resonate, and fascists will just use it freely if we don't.
I agree that it can act as a complimentary vision to socialist realism, and the critique is of what's missing rather than anything being inherently wrong with it.