Awareness of capitalism

Everywhere I go I am bombarded with capitalist propaganda, urging me to buy goods and services that are frankly no good.  I see advertisements that promote the belief in false virtues and ideals towards products, from cheap "as seen on TV" goods to dietary supplements that don't work to expensive cars that will be worth much less in a couple years. 

The propaganda does not aim to be true or factual, rather, it aims to say this product is infallible, and that to be a good citizen I must buy it.  I must be a part of consumer spending, of the economy, and yet there is so little benefit to me.  I am losing freedom every time I believe the propaganda and spend money on unneeded items.  I am enslaving myself to a life of consumption, managing to make just enough through labor in order to live.  Even without spending my dollars will sit there, waiting to be used, or to become devalued through inflation. 

The workers must work tirelessly to keep the system running, but they do it because they know this is for the greater good of the capitalist state.  They do not see themselves as slaves to the system. 

Marxist dialectical materialism, which connotes the constant struggle between opposites in an empirical setting, is the best method toward constant improvement. Objective analysis of problems based on empirical results is at a premium.

Unity of the masses, the Party and the whole country is essential. At the same time, criticism may take place along comradely lines, while at the same time a basic unity is felt and preserved. This is the dialectical method.

Criticism is a part of the Marxist dialectical method which is central to Party improvement; as such, communists must not fear it, but engage in it openly.

-Summary of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung regarding criticism