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Abstract. This paper re-examines Marx's notion of `commodity fetishism' and argues that this concept offers much for an understanding of the psychology of consumer capitalism. Marx's analysis of commodities contains an implicit psychology of collective amnesia, for he argued that in capitalist life the productive origins of commodities are ...
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Mar 8, 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.
define the commodity fetish, lures the reader into a labyrinth of discomfiting allusions. "A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood," he began, only to retract: "Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties" (C 81). The same
Nov 26, 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. It reveals two distinct interpretive moments in the fetish: the interpretation of goods as anonymous in exchange and the interpretation of commodity ...
- Tad Skotnicki
- 2020
this article reconstructs Karl Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept. It reveals two distinct interpretive moments in the fetish: the interpretation of goods as anonymous in exchange and the interpretation of commodity-exchange as natural. As authentic semblances, interpretations in commodity-exchange cannot
Jun 9, 2009 · Marx's theory of commodity fetishism exposes the mystification of social relations in the commodity as a concealed form of domination that contributes to the creation of alienated subjects.
Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism has generally been addressed and examined from two main points of view: that of its relation to the notion of alienation and that of its connection to the theory of value.
