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Consumerism, at the least, is dependent on capitalism's core feature, generalized commodity production. So far, that seems true - was there any consumerism in p
by claudiawerner 7y ago
Consumerism, at the least, is dependent on capitalism's core feature, generalized commodity production. So far, that seems true - was there any consumerism in pre-capitalist societies? I'd hazard a guess and say no. If consumerism is further driven by advertising, it depends on capitalism even more. This paper[0] persausively argues that consumerism is a consequence of specifically capitalist society, considered in its historical development.
[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog099 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978047067059...
- rexpop 7y agoI find it so difficult to understand the mental gymnastics necessary to "shift blame" over certain types of suffering from "capitalism" to "consumerism" or "cronyism" as though those ideologies (and accompanying institutions) were independent tragedies, liable to manifest in any cultural substrate. There's no cancer in bricks, and no commodity fetishism in a socialist economy. edit: truly bewildering to me folks think they're doing a service to themselves of their society by silently downvoting me.
- kick 7y agoNews Guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Commenting on votes will only make you get downvoted more, regardless of how virtuous your comment was.
- rexpop 7y agoPedant.