Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.