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
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

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Dobra, A. (2010). What does Marx mean by the "fetishism of commodities"? E-LOGOS17(1), 1-8. doi: 10.18267/j.e-logos.281
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