/lit/ - Literature

>>9520985

>"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the women's liberation movement in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. . .. In 1928 George Washington Hill, the president of the American Tobacco Company, realized the potential market that could be found in women and said, ““It will be like opening a gold mine right in our front yard.”

Traditional gender roles have a negative "impact" on sales. Notice how lotions and creams are now being marketed to men, even though these are traditionally a women's product. Capitalism is an inherently liberal economic system because tradition and "arbitrary" distinctions between people are a brake on progress.

>>8802151

>cops are murdering black people who are trapped by an endless cycle of poverty and crime

Yeah that socially left stuff is what keeps me away from socialism. I'm all for a 2016 version of the grain dole but the kind of "progressive" causes latter-day socialists support can only make things worse. In a sense you're in league with the capitalists, they would like nothing more than America to become even more atomized and even more divorced from tradition.

I mean why would any socialist worth his salt focus on black poverty as if it were a separate issue?