Why yes *eats caviar* I am *drinks champagne* a socialist *invests in the stock market* and uh *spits on a fast food worker* there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism *drives away in a BMW*
Commodity fetishism is more self-denying than asceticism. Conspicuous consumerism is more self-denying than community engagement. Consumerism is liberalist and alienating regardless if it's "ethical" or not. Also, are you an Owenite?
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commodity fetishism isn't the fault of proles. blaming individuals for not being ascetic enough is empty moralism and presents capitalism as the fault of individuals for making bad choices rather than a systemic problem with a systemic answer.
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So punching individual Nazis is good praxis but trying to make consumer choices which might hinder the most egregious capitalist institutions is just smug liberalism... because somehow punching individual Nazis is a systemic answer while altering consumption habits ain't?
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individual nazis are a threat. individual soup cans or pairs of shoes aren't. individual refusal to consume is still a consumer decision, and that's why it's not revolutionary. your consumption choices don't matter, and neither do mine.
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Individual Nazis are an easy target and much less of a threat than your average CEO.
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a CEO's power isn't challenged by one person not buying a product they sell millions of a day. do you think taking shorter showers and using more efficient lightbulbs would stop global warming?
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No, but abolishing animal agriculture would.
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*industrial farming of both animals and plants
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