Defending Consumerism?

Many believe that socialism is a struggle to overturn the market and that revolutionaries should attempt to deprogram the masses who have been suckered, brainwashed, and ultimately corrupted by cheap consumer goods. In this third episode of WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY author MK Hobson (Native Star- and Zero Books publisher and author Douglas Lain (Bash Bash Revolution- question this view as they explore and explain the topic of “Anti-Consumerism” while taking an excerpt from Swift’s “A Left For Itself”

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY is a new monthly video series modeled on educational television programs like 3...2...1 Contact and Square One Television, only rather than explaining the natural sciences, WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY aims to explore Critical Theory of the Marxist variety.

Also Starring:

Noah Lain as the boy with his damn hat.

Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole


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Other Music Includes

Zero Squared Theme or “Untitled” by Nik Walton

An Acoustic version of Macintosh plus by The Guests

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