Towards a Marxian reading of contemporary consumer society: concept and historical development
Abstract
This paper aims to contribute to the analysis of consumption in contemporary capitalism from a perspective that reflexively reformulates some categories of Marx’s critique of political economy. The theory that the historical step to the consumer society can be understood in terms of the real subsumption of use-value under capital is used as the common theme for the review of its main mechanisms, paying special attention to a more in-depth examination of these since the crisis of so-called “Fordism”.
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