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CAPITALISM’S ‘RELIGION’ OF CONSUMERISM; Carl Davidson (KD); Facebook; December 27, 2016.
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Local lefty leader Carl Davidson (KD) wrote, “CAPITALISM’S ‘RELIGION’ OF CONSUMERISM. ‘… The existence of the things qua commodities, and the value-relation between the products of labour which stamps them as commodities, have absolutely no connection with their physical properties and with the material relations arising therefrom. There it is a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things. … This I call the Fetishism … of commodities.’ --Karl Marx, Capital.” KD linked to a USA Today piece entitled “Reports of mall disturbances light up social media.”
KD must hope his followers don’t read the linked story. It’s also possible KD read only the story’s title and let his bias/imagination do the rest. Read the article and you find the “mall melees and disturbances” in the story apparently had nothing to do with “CAPITALISM’S ‘RELIGION’ OF CONSUMERISM.” The fights mentioned in the story were among “young” people in open areas like the food court. Nowhere does the article mention fights over sale items. In fairness, I’m sure there were some incidents like KD hoped would happen. This wasn’t one of them, however.
I’ll bet Cubans are glad they don’t have this “consumerism” problem, assuming their government-controlled media reported it. <g>
Lefties who complain about “CAPITALISM’S ‘RELIGION’ OF CONSUMERISM” do so out of jealousy. If by some miracle, Cubans had the money, were presented with bargains, and got a little rowdy, lefties would run the video nonstop and extol the virtues of communism that delivered the bounty.
Finally, take a look at the comment’s discussion thread and you find none of the contributors noticed – or noticed but chose not to mention - the story had nothing to do with “consumerism.” That’s “mission accomplished” for KD.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity. <g>
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