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not hostile to one another per se, but they are really aiming at different things, even though they both relate to consumers. (a) Anti-consumerism: "Anti/Consumerism" is fundamentally a critique of consumer capitalism, emphasis on the capitalism. So consumerism, anti-consumerism, etc., in with antiglobalization and other critiques of capitalism. (b) Pro-consumer: All the other concepts are really about making consumers safe within capitalism, so put consumer product testing & evaluation; consumer criticism/complaint; consumer financial protection; consumer health & safety ... all together. (3) Link the two category trees with "see also" references. ... I'm not sure what to do with the economics stuff then. --
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315:. There is talk about this in lots of places, but no one place has a community around it. I propose talking on that template, because it should be on most of the articles describing concepts of the movement, and because it is an old name for the concept. I do not care what name gets applied to the books or other media, but I do think that probably there should be only one category for works on this topic. Thoughts?
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Right. I think "anti-consumerism" is a particular political take on questions of (over-)consumption. Could we usefully pull all these concepts together in one uber-category, like "consumer activism and protection"? And then keep these various sub-categories which do, after all, seem to capture
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There is no WikiProject. I was thinking of setting one up. One problem here is that there are a lot of terms that mean the same thing - consumer protection, consumerism, and anti-consumerism share a definition but have nuances to bring in other meanings. See
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