The political ethics of consumption

Here in the West, at least, we didn't really begin moralizing consumption choices as a kind of ideological political profile until the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, neoliberal deregulation successfully depoliticized society as the post-WW2 socioeconomic consensus eroded and it became clear the Cold War was ending in total Western hegemony; free market politics…