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'''Political consumerism''' is a blanket concept including [[fair trade]] and [[moral purchasing]]. It could be seen as more general, or as more specific. | '''Political consumerism''' is a blanket concept including [[fair trade]] and [[moral purchasing]]. It could be seen as more general, or as more specific. | ||
It takes the word [[Consumerism]] which is nowerdays portrayed as an bad thing, a sort of ''hysteric drive to consume'', where consumption is no longer motivated by [[fysiological]] ([[hunger]], [[thirst]], avoidance of incomfort) motives but more by [[psychology|psychological]], [[culture|cultural]] and [[social]] influences many of them overly fuelled by [[advertising]]. | |||
'''Political consumerism''' takes the stand that for those who are wealthy enough to have multiple choices for filling a need, be the need natural or manufactured, making decisions about what to consume is '''political''' in the sense that it assumes the [[consumer]] has knowledge of the [[environmental impact]] and [[social impact]] the [[production]] has and these factors are evaluated in addition to [[price]] and [[suitability for use]] by the consumer. | |||
It emphasizes [[economic choice]] not quite as [[moral choice]] based on [[moral cognition]] but rather more practically as [[political choice]] based on some [[factionally defined]] criteria. If it's valid, then, factions matter more, and individual morality less, in determining [[individual buying criteria]]. | It emphasizes [[economic choice]] not quite as [[moral choice]] based on [[moral cognition]] but rather more practically as [[political choice]] based on some [[factionally defined]] criteria. If it's valid, then, factions matter more, and individual morality less, in determining [[individual buying criteria]]. | ||