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Christopher Lasch

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


— Christopher Lasch


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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.


— Christopher Lasch


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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.


— Christopher Lasch


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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.


— Christopher Lasch


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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.


— Christopher Lasch


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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.


— Christopher Lasch


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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.


— Christopher Lasch


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


— Christopher Lasch


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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.


— Christopher Lasch


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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.


— Christopher Lasch


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" In addition he finalized his intentions for the essays to be included in Women and the Common Life: Love Marriage and Feminism which was publiChristopher Laschd with his daughter's introduction in 1997. It would not make a paycheck the only symbol of accomplishment. Most of his books even the more strictly historical ones include such sharp criticism of the priorities of alleged "radicals" who represented merely extreme formations of a rapacious capitalist ethos.

' His books including The New Radicalism in America (1965) Haven in a Heartless World (1977) The Culture of Narcissism (1979) and The True and Only Heaven (1991) were widely discussed and reviewed. In the 1960s he was a neo-Marxist and acerbic critic of Cold War liberalism. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions public and private were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities.

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