It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the...

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

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

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

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its...

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its...

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...