Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom.
Evidence
Rather than seeing these developments as beneficial to the individual, Marcuse sees them as a threat to human freedom and individuality in a totally administered society. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 7
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Mass consumer choice over offered products is a token of powerlessness, not power — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 226; Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 468; Capitalism’s coercion is impersonal market dependence rather than personal domination. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 77 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Market ideology functions to repress freedom rather than secure it
#corroborates(0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 600 - Culture consumed as consumer goods manipulates people rather than liberating them.
#corroborates(0.88) - Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted
#expands(0.85) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468 - Blocked power over productive activity produces consumerism as compensation.
#corroborates(0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 689 - Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production
#corroborates(0.85) - Freedom must be conceived negatively as freedom from the economy
#expands(0.82) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 112 - Capitalism structurally requires negative liberty and rejects positive liberty
#qualifies(0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 299 - Capitalism’s coercion is impersonal market dependence rather than personal domination.
#qualifies(0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 77 - Fear of freedom leads people to prefer security over liberty
#expands(0.70) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 77