IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 50, 15 June 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 173 words

The scan: sc-n50-jun-15-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

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JUAN AGUIRRE (Batterses)

NAFF-LYP CONCRA page Teodine" adverts - a page "decoding" adverts. Sadly the product didn't match up to the concept. I just abour managed to work out what the article was on about - and it was totally banal, Two hundred words of pedantic explanation did nothing to iluminate Ine Te SEsE H URBOn was even worse. It moved from bland BISNIACHRE TENATPTNTR the products advertised" (how?) — to complete gobbledygook:"...advertis ng also produces ideological value And what is ideological value (since it certainiy isn la Marxist concept)? IE seems to boil down to the profound discovery that "advertising is constant boen Then we are told, out of the blue that tads are the stroneest cement o capitalist society. " Not the state, not bourgeois ideology as a whole, not the political system...but advertising.

suspected that incomprehensible verbiage conceals a lack of anything to say. Now I'm SAVAGE.

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