In some circumstances, "consumerism for" can be a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to describe consumerism as a motivation or driving force for certain actions or behaviors. Example: "The marketing campaign was designed to promote consumerism for the new product, encouraging people to buy it as a symbol of status and success."
(To protest consumerism, for example, James stops washing his hair).
The investor, who bought Andy Warhol's Mao in 2011 but has since rejected consumerism for the world of philanthropy, has also been motivated by rage.
"We have gone out of our way to focus on information and not focus on consumerism for your pets," she said.
For a long time Canada has seemed the ideal vantage from which to view the excesses of American consumerism, for Coupland to coin his ideas of McJobs and Bambification and Dorian Graying and the rest.
This has been the simple quest of consumerism for the past half-century: to pinpoint with laser-like accuracy the anxieties of the consumer at any given moment, from the nebulous (economic insecurity) to the specific (bird flu).
So there I am, in the café, pretending not to be a hot milk addict, too damaged by consumerism for an espresso, left to utter that hateful word, like some exchange between GI and pimp in the ruins of postwar Naples: "Americano".
During good times, it's a lot easier to sell contempt for "materialism" and "consumerism" and for the open economic policies that make them possible.
They speak of escaping the consumerism of home for complete simplicity.
Even today, Americans don't want a revolution against their own consumerism — not for all the tea in China.
But it's the same shallow consumerism that, for instance, allows all those techie boys to jump around waving their Ipads outside the Apple store.
Such is the power of Chinese consumerism that, for all the party's disdain, sex shops became more commonplace in urban China than they are in most western cities.
