anticommercialization

Opposing market-driven culture

Anticommercialization is opposition to the spread of commercial interests or market-driven values into areas where they're seen as inappropriate or harmful.

The stance typically targets the commercialization of holidays, public spaces, education, healthcare, or the arts: The festival maintained its anticommercialization ethos by refusing corporate sponsors.

Often implies protecting something's authenticity or integrity from profit motives.

policy

regulation

Official rules governing conduct

taxation · antitrust · decommodification · nationalization · commons · legislation · reform · oversight · restriction · ban

activism

boycott

Organized economic protest

grassroots · advocacy · counterculture · demonstration · campaign · solidarity · collective · manifesto · occupy · divestment

cultural

authenticity

Quality of being genuine

preservation · folk · indigenous · artisan · handmade · community · localism · craftsmanship · ritual · sacred

artistic

independent

Free from external control

  • DIYAmateur home projects
  • undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
  • zineSelf-published small periodical

punk · alternative · nonprofit · patron · cooperative · collective · unsponsored · busking · muralism · open-source

philosophical

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

ideology · materialism · commodification · alienation · exploitation · consumption · neoliberalism · globalization · corporatism · privatization

Opposites
economic orientation

anticommercializationcommercialization

Profit-driven market introduction

commercialism · monetization · commodification · marketization · pro-business

cultural stance toward markets

anticommercializationconsumerism

Preoccupation with acquiring goods

materialism · neoliberalism · hypercapitalism · corporate culture · selling out

economic ideology

anticommercializationlaissez-faire

Noninterference in commerce

neoliberalism · hypercapitalism · privatization · deregulation

Family

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