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Leseproben aus: Tanja Busse, Die Einkaufsrevolution
Die Ausgangssituation: The global consumer involvement are overwhelmed (p. 86)
How To So with that? We know that children elsewhere in the world work for us, just when shopping forget it often. If someone tells us what goes where children work in conditions that no German union would expect of an adult, we think: We would like to change, but how? And then we go to the movies and see The Constant Gardener and think: Damn, that is with the pharmaceutical industry and AIDS in Africa so not in order! On the way back we hear on the radio, in which emergency Coffee prices fell to the Vietnamese farmers bring. And the next morning we read in the newspaper that the hazardous chemical plasticizer may still be stirred into tablets covers, although it is known for decades that they can harm embryos 104th Then you have heard enough for a while.
If Elizabeth Showers of one of her trips to return and friends of the child soldiers or weavers children-told wish to hear often not as accurate, and can understand them, why. "There is way too much and too far" That's what it takes: It's just too much. The global consumer involvement are overwhelmed. Because everything depends
together, the world trade with the hunger in Africa, our gasoline consumption with the global climate, our policy with the people in the barbed wire fence of the English enclaves in Morocco, and purchasing behavior with the resources of the rainforest, and we hang sadly in the middle and nobody can say he would have not known. If you eat a steak, a piece die rain forest. When one fills up his car, oil contamination of land in Nigeria. If you buy sneakers, encourages children to exploiters. With the acquisition of a golden ring to be involved in the poisoning of Romanian villages and the old container ship that brought about bringing our new sports equipment from China loses toxic tributyltin in the oceans. One uses risky technology, possibly against his will, knowing that one's life harms the ecosystem, and buy goods that were produced under conditions that one does not approve, and yet can not change the fact - at least not without risking his life plan. Every day we hear that happened many things happened that should not, and do not know whether one is responsible. How can we bear it? Is there such thing as a consumer debt? All calls to our imagination and, it seems, even our action. We do not know enough, we know too much, we have to be clarified, and we feel helpless. Why
the politicians fail? (P. 194)
(...) It has various causes, that the policy fails to enforce social and environmental standards: Many politicians keep it for a topic that makes no impression on voters, and if it is still a question to care they have to fight against the liberal sentiment, against the great majority of those who rely on the self-healing forces of the free market and against an army of lobbyists, all with unclear mandates and responsibilities of the various political levels.
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The dictatorship of the market takes up the morale of the individual. (P. 236 f.)
Almost all Areas of life are subject to market calculus, and that has consequences: the universalization of the market that is developed us-moralized. The "to the self-interest oriented benefit calculus" - most clearly visible in the capitalist profits - was the "guiding principle and the non-capital property settlers" have become, writes the sociologist Dominique Schräge.282 maximize profits forever! This not only accumulation of capital and goods as a life goal for all but the enshrined the guiding principle of the insatiable Häwelmanns - "More More!" Shouts Theodor Storm's children's book hero constantly - as a general social imperative. And it is a very convenient morality, greed to virtue rises, the market works best - his supporters say - if every single possible freely to seek its own advantage. To prove this, quote the market liberals like Adam Smith and his invisible hand that the self-interests of citizens as a single fighter to successful whole assembles (and beat it that Smith is always also a regimented state just as the counterpart). Against that belief in miracles is easily one or the other classics into position, such as Thomas Hobbes and his homo homini lupus, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau's dictum that man is good by nature, only the society corrupts him. But such theories are of course not as effective as the neo-liberals Dauereinflüsterungen that bring glory to the egoism as a social virtue. For followers of the market maintain the faith: Buy and sell what you want and as much as you want, and you're a good man! Such sentences can be heard rather than the traditional morality of constraint and imposition.
I do not entirely that of the cold calculus of benefit displaced the moral sense, but it is confident of at least next to it. In the head, most probably a blend of values, such as a physician who feels the Hippocratic Oath in its modern version and the same obligation when their contract is told that his hospital is a profit center. This is seen as a contradiction that one would rather repressed than face him.
The more spilling out of the market and the more the state withdraws from its core areas, the more important it is for citizens to strengthen their position in relation to the economy. Therefore, it is now - after the emancipation of the subjects to citizens - at the time of the emancipation of the consumer. As once the subjects of an authoritarian state emancipated, then the consumer would have to emancipate itself from a market today, which they now all too familiar often nearly blind. Even after half a century Purchasing experience in the economic miracle occurs, the consumer often as a voluntary subject of the market.
What does " shopping revolution " mean? (P. 240 f.)
Political consumption to extend the policy to the market means in a time of expanding markets and the withdrawal of the policy. He can be individualized means political engagement in an individualized society that could lead to collective action. Political consumption is easier today than ever before, because, after all, you can easily obtain the necessary information. The protest against the Coltan extraction in the Congo has shown that the companies themselves in the deepest African bush in the long run do not remain invisible. Much of what you might need to know to buy policy, long on the Internet: in the pages of environmental and consumer advocates, critical shareholders and unions. Or in books such as the Black Book brand companies or other critical consumer guide. Or in magazines such as Ökotest. What's missing is a database that pools all the information, a mouse click or even better when shopping via text message board access: who has how much pay for these pants sewn together? How much pesticide stuck in the cotton? If the coltan from the Congo in this phone? What war party deserves it? And what about the chicken coop from, from which the eggs for this cake. Please a picture!
blurb
Tanja Busse uncovers scandals of modern production and pricing policy and shows how the consumer can take as a social power of the future influence. In the practical part, they are concrete tips on where and how is a responsible use possible. The enlightened consumer will be the adversary of the global economic powers. For companies actually respond to changed buying behavior much prompter than in any new bill. We do indeed like as if it were entirely uninfluenced economic processes that determine where, what and how ligation. In truth, however, we ourselves are to determine our buying habits, the standards of production.
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