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Re: Karl Marx meet the North Carolina NAACP
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, December 4 2013, 22:49:34 (UTC)
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Marcello wrote:
>I agree, I was basically saying the same thing, just left out the "selective" part. I by no means promote any type of violence, that's what the Libertarian Right militias keep spouting about with their "second amendment remedies", or the Jihadists, or some of the anarchists who live in the suburbs, and on weekends go into Black neighborhoods to try to "free" the underclass by burning down their already dilapidated buildings and shops, then run back to mommy and daddy's house up in Berkeley hills. No, no, no.. that type of violence I equate with pre-mature ejaculation.


...agreed.

What I was pointing out by quoting Marcuse was that the demand is preestablished by the suppliers through nuanced means of subliminal introjection. A man who feels utterly emasculated by his boss, by his wife, by his neighbor, finds a substitute through which to express his masculinity in the phallic symbolism available to him through a sports car, a power tool, a gun. Before we become selective consumers, I think, we should psychoanalytically understand why it is that we purchase certain products.


...it may take way too long for the people to "psychoanalytically understand" why anyone does anything. We don't need millions and millions of people to be so educated and enlightened, or any...many elections are won by five thousand votes....and ten thousand people each buying their toothpaste somewhere else is all that is needed...the poor and Black and Latino people shopping at those Pope family discount stores have only to understand that their money is being used against their own interests...let them go on buying phallic symbols if they want, that's another battle for another day, but right now the effort is to at least get them to understand that they have something the Pope family wants very badly; money...and it will be okay to spend that money at their stores IF, IF the Pope family will not pursue political goals which hurt those very same people....let the effort begin there and maybe people will feel empowered enough to delve a little deeper into motivations and whatnot.



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