![]() ![]() It is an absolutely stratified and unequal system in which the possibilities of survival and well-being depend on the role that each one has in this hypercapitalist gear: consumer, producer, seller, executive… In a society ruled by the law of the market, the protagonist of these literary adventures could not be other than a famous publicist, at the top of the social social pyramid at the beginning of the story. ![]() The Space Merchants presents a futuristic society in which political power is absolutely subordinated to economic power in which the interests of large corporations are law and in which the great lords of commerce have the ability to monitor and subdue the rest of the population through consumption. ![]() Within the framework of this series, it has two peculiarities that differentiate it from the previous recommendations, since it is the first work written by two hands, and the first in which criticism of the economic system stands out against criticism of the political system: The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. ![]() Today we bring you the eighth proposal in this series of 13 dystopias to be studied in history books, a work initially published in installments in the early 1950s in the journal Galaxy Science Fiction. ![]()
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