The article discusses the reaction of socialist political economists in Britain and the United States to the onset of mass consumption among the working class. It considers their response to its impact on working-class aspirations, tastes, political sensibilities, and solidarity. It discusses too their views as to the form that consumption should take under socialism and how working-class consumption could be denuded of the social and other diseconomies that attached to it under capitalism.
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