#16: Marketing: Capitalist Psychology

The Entry Level Left Podcast

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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

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