Explains why the more capitalism is revealed to be damaging and regressive, the more it gains acceptance in everyday life and popular culture.[...]
In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our societal relations, weaving deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how it is a system that totalises and which has upended the modernity project by industrialised warfare[...]
Our relationship to consumption is not an easy one. Apart from being self-centred, superficial and narcissistic, the consumer is held responsible for global warming, poverty and now, by 'binging on easy credit', economic crisis. A straw man has many uses, including being 'part of the solution' by re[...]