E-LOGOS 2010, 17(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.281
What does Marx mean by the "fetishism of commodities"?
- Alexandra Dobra an editor for the IAPSS's academic journal Politikon, redactor for the academic journal ResPublica Nova (ENS de Paris), chapter chairman and founder for The Transatlantic (LSE; Oxford; SIPA; York).
Keywords: Marx, Fetishism; Commodities; Social Relations; Reification; Duplication.
The present paper aims to analyse Marx's concept of "fetishism of commodities" by explaining the mechanism of a social genesis of determined illusions, arising in the sphere of production and circulation of commodities. It highlights the existence of an auto-sustained autarkic system of 4 variables - reification, objectification, duplicity and habit - sustaining and leading to the fetishism of commodities.
Prepublished online: October 31, 2010; Published: June 1, 2010 Show citation