anticommercialism

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anticommercial +‎ -ism

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anticommercialism (uncountable)

  1. (sociology) An ideology that opposes commercialism.
    • 2007 June 9, Michael Walker, “(Don’t Go Back to) San Francisco”, in New York Times[1]:
      Unstructured gigs at the city’s acid-drenched ballrooms encouraged epic jams of the sort perfected by the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Jefferson Airplane, along with a naïve anticommercialism — hit singles were for the hacks in Laurel Canyon.

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