Abstract: Abstract In Marx the critique of fetishism is the critique of the occluding and contradictory aspect of the capitalist mode of production. In fact, fetishism is the phenomenal form reflected in capitalist categories (categories of bourgeois political economy), from the complex category ‘capital’ to the simple one, ‘commodity.’ In commodities Marx grasps at its lowest level (but also at its typical and more easily “visible” level) the fetish distortion inherent in all metamorphoses which commodities themselves continually undergo as they become capital. As Marx pointed out in the third volume of Capital, at the surface of the general capitalist phenomenon which vulgar economics isolates and elaborates as such, fetishism appears very well hidden.
Publication Year: 1972
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 4
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot