If you care to reread it..
It is a free pdf download.
I started it last night and started to have some recollections.
I recall being fascinated with the marketing techniques mentioned in the book. A biting satire it was. I didn't see it as anyway related to communism. It was a time when Mike Nichols and Elaine May were doing a lot of political satire and I took it as all for laughs.
The ad tricks mentioned got me interested in things like subliminal projection, etc. It may be partly responsible for me majoring in Marketing