Commodity fetishism
Nature
In Marxist philosophy, the term commodity fetishism describes the economic relationships of production and exchange as being social relationships that exist among things (money and merchandise) and not as relationships that exist among people. As a form of reification, commodity fetishism presents economic value as inherent to the commodities, and not as arising from the workforce, from the human relations that produced the commodity, the goods and the services.
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Commodity fetishism signifies the personification of things and economic categories. It is the objectification of production relations between people under the conditions of commodity production based on private ownership; and is seen when the element of social relations dominating people appears outwardly as domination by certain things. Capital as a production relation is personified in the capitalist, while hired labour is embodied in the worker. Fetishism permeates all the economic categories of capitalist society; an example is the exploitation of man by man, which is masked by the payment of wages. The acquisition of money and material goods is the highest manifestation of commodity fetishism.
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