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8 Μαρ 2023 · How does Marx define Commodity Fetishism? According to Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (1867), in a capitalist society, a commodity appears as if by magic to the consumer. This miraculous appearance, crucially, is divorced from the labour which produced it. This process is what Marx calls commodity fetishism.
In Marxist philosophy, the term commodity fetishism describes the economic relationships of production and exchange as being social relationships that exist among things (money and merchandise) and not as relationships that exist among people.
This Fetishism of commodities has its origin, as the foregoing analysis has already shown, in the peculiar social character of the labour that produces them. As a general rule, articles of utility become commodities, only because they are products of the labour
Commodity fetishism is an important concept in Marxist and so-called post-Marxist theory: It is central to the work of György Lukács, particularly his concept of reification; it is also central to the work of Guy Debord, who famously argued the final form of the commodity would be the image; and it is central to Jean Baudrillard's theory of ...
26 Νοε 2020 · With the aid of Hannah Arendt’s distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances, this article reconstructs Karl Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept.
10 Δεκ 2019 · Fetishism of Commodities. Marx establishes the character of a commodity before he introduces the concept of the fetishism of commodities. He discusses how a commodity has both a use-value and...
Yet, I show how pioneering turn‐of‐the‐twentieth century consumer activists in England and the United States appealed to consumers’ senses in spite of such degradation. Such appeals sought to render the social relations of labor behind the commodity perceptible to consumers.
