The 20th Century:War, Totalitarianism, Genocide & Consumerism

Total war

Totalitarianism

Genocide

GenocideInternational Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the

Crime of Genocide(1948)

killing members of the group causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated

to kill imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

forcibly transferring children out of a group

Consumerism

Consumerism

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

"conspicuous consumption"

Consumerism

Consumerism