“Women and the Myth of Consumerism,” by Ellen Willis in RAMPARTS (June 1970). [via Facebook]

“Women and the Myth of Consumerism,” by Ellen Willis in RAMPARTS (June 1970). [via Facebook] (posted 21 December 2014, 4pm / revised 4pm)

VRG participants — for what it’s worth, for many years the HTML version of this classic essay by Ellen Willis (which will be part of the supplementary readings for our discussion tomorrow evening) was missing a fairly large chunk of the original text of Willis’s article, due to some severe excerpting-for-length that occurred in the anthology that the HTML version was based on. I’m happy to announce that the text has now been updated and enlarged, to match the original essay as it appeared in RAMPARTS (June 1970). Enjoy! Also: it’s a pretty good, provocative essay, even if you’re not in the VRG. http://ift.tt/1ryI1jS

“Women and the Myth of Consumerism,” by Ellen Willis in RAMPARTS (June 1970).

If white radicals are serious about revolution, they are going to have to discard a lot of bullshit ideology created by and for educated white middle-class males. A good example of what has to go is the popular theory of consumerism.

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