The role of consumerism in class oppression
Posted on November 4th, 2005 by Brad Spangler
Kevin Carson has a new post up: The Creative Crime of Thrift. The quotes he gives illustrate well one reason that State Capitalism is not a free market, for public policy introduces market distortions that provide perverse incentives to the working class, discouraging them from accumulating capital. This serves to keep workers cowed and dependent on employers.
A libertarian socialist would call this situation capitalism. An anarcho-capitalist would call it socialism. Both would be partially right and partially wrong — because each has differing definitions of “capitalism” and “socialism”. Both would, or at least ought to, agree on this point, though — it is class oppression and not a truly free market.
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