The pro­duc­tivist bias inher­ent in both clas­si­cal eco­nom­ics and ortho­dox Marx­ism has delayed the recog­ni­tion of the ‘con­sumer rev­o­lu­tion’ that accom­pa­nied the indus­trial one and has come, over the course of the last cen­tury, increas­ingly to drive the trans­for­ma­tion of cap­i­tal. Today, how­ever, the con­sump­tion of com­modi­ties has entan­gled itself with almost every facet...

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