#2,133

One speaks of a “consumer society” in order to conceal—since production is the progressive ideal—that one is dealing with a production society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 348

#1,942

The contemporary public is the first to readily buy what it neither needs nor likes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,557

Instead of “industrial society,” it is in fashion to say “consumer society” in order to avoid the problem by pretending to confront it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 260

#1,470

Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of man” except the right to consume.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,069

The only alternative at the end of this century: eastern barracks—western brothel.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 190

#919

Today’s revolutionaries are just impatient heirs.
Revolution will be spoken of seriously when the “consumption” they hate is not just someone else’s consumption.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 167

#399

Consumption, for the progressive, is justified only as a means of production.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 82