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Law of Value 2: The Fetishism of Commodities by Brendan M. Cooney

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brendanmcooney | May 05, 2010

This phenomenon where objects have social power, in which things act as if they have a will of their own, is what Marx sought to unravel with his notion of “the fetishism of commodities.” When Marx talked about fetishism he wasn’t talking about whips and chains and leather outfits. He was talking about the way the relations between producers in a capitalist society take the form of relations between things.

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Law of Value 1: Introduction by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 3: Das MudPie by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 4: Use-Value, Exchange Value, Value by Brendan M Cooney

Law of Value 5: Contradiction by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 6: Socially Necessary Labor Time by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 7: Production and Exchange by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 8: Subject/Object by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 9: Abstract Labor by Brendan M. Cooney

Law of Value 10: Price and Value by Brendan M. Cooney

11 thoughts on “Law of Value 2: The Fetishism of Commodities by Brendan M. Cooney”

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  6. the fetishism os commoditys is real , but the Franfurt school of Marcuse , Horkhiemer ,Adorno , Fromm , and other Marxists dealt with this in the 1920’s and it turned into snobbery with them berating Jazz music and amercian blues and alot of cool stuff. so , we know where this leads.
    however as a christian i am sympathetic to this view of the trouble with fetishism and turning people into things and things into people in our on going onslaught of sick advertising . this is called ”Thingism ”. Father Cavanaugh a jesuit philospher here at st. louis U wrote a great book on it called ”following Christ in a consumer society ”.

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