Apropos Lou's post, my new book project is entitled, The Powerless of Individualism in a Corporate Society, which attacks advertising ....
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:35:03PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: > You also have to keep in mind that there was no such thing as advertising, > department stores and mass communications in Marx's age. Sometimes I have > to catch my breath when I look around me at all the advertising in NYC. > Subways, buses, TV shows, radio, magazines, newspapers, web pages, movies > (ads before it starts; ads during the flick), taxis are all plastered with > ads. And much of it is designed to make you feel so degraded that you go > out and buy a stupid product just to feel like a human being. Toyotas will > make the opposite sex love you. Eating Subway sandwiches will make you look > less like a fat slob. Coors beer brings conviviality into your life. The > first thing I'd like to see after the revolution is a permanent ban on > advertising. It will mean as much to us as ending tipping did in Cuba after > 1959. > > > > Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
