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Nov 22, 2019 1 hr 2 min

#16: Marketing: Capitalist Psychology

from The Entry Level Left Podcast Hosted by The Entry Level Left

Listen, support, and interact: https://linktr.ee/theentrylevelleft 00:35: What role does marketing play in capitalist society? 00:45: The 4 “P’s” of marketing https://bit.ly/2O8xc8G 09:00: The deceitfulness of branding and the illusion of choice 18:40: 10 companies control the food industry https://bit.ly/2KJrpoa 20:20: Soy farming threatens indigenous people and the Amazon https://bit.ly/2O6uzUW 26:40: Patents and the myth that innovation can only happen under capitalism 29:30: The vast majority of risk involved in innovation is financed by public money 38:00: How does marketing reinforce the status quo of bourgeois state power? 41:00: Woke brands and product placement as a form of psychological coercion 43:00: The ineptitude of reactionaries brand boycotting and voting with your wallet 44:00: Corporations model their expression of ethics based on profitability of culture 45:00: The ELL gang goes off on a drunken tangent 49:00: How corporations sell your nostalgia back to you for profit 53:00: Leftists buying Che Guevara shirts off Amazon: A Moral Predicament 54:00: Woke meta twitter politics: brands roasting other brands on Twitter 55:00: Arby’s Curly Fry Caucus of the DSA Music produced by @southpointe__ on Instagram.

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