Marx believed that consumerism could serve a progressive purpose -- he even thought that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read our own local rag.
Marx certainly overestimated the progressive nature of consumerism, but that does not seem to be something to get worked up about.
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:-> -- Yoshie
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