[lbo-talk] Commodity fetishism: shop until you get dropped

[Thomas Seay]

--- BrownBingb at aol.com wrote:
> ORANGE CITY, Fla. (Nov. 29) - A mob of shoppers
> rushing for a sale on DVD 
> players trampled the first woman in line and knocked
> her unconscious as they 
> scrambled for the shelves at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Granted that this was an instance of consumerism gone
bad, but what does this have to do in particular with
commodity fetishism?  Or was that just a cute title?

-Thomas

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<<You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do it on the Discovery Channel>>

Bloodhound Gang, "The Bad Touch"

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