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abstract: '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.'
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keywords: 'Marx, Fetishism; Commodities; Social Relations; Reification; Duplication.'
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publication: E-Logos Electronic Journal for Philosophy
publisher: University of Economics Prague
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referencetext: "Adorno, T. (2002). Essays on music. Berkeley : University of California Press.\r\nBalibar, E. (2001). La Philosophie de Marx. Paris : La Découverte.\r\nHamacher, W. (1999). A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Michael Sprinker Eds, London : Verso.\r\nMarx, K., (1988). The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto. New-York : Prometheus Books.\r\nMarx, K., (1998). The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach. New-York : Prometheus Books.\r\nMiller, A., (1987). Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Oxford : Blackwell.\r\nRubin, I., I. (1972). Essays on Marx Theory of Value. Detroit : Black and Red."
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title: What does Marx mean by the “fetishism of commodities”?
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