Yes, well, I would like to argue with anyone who doesn't think that:
Marxism is materialist because social relations are real (what starts every inverstigation) and dialectical in themselves (tho a social relation in itself is somewhat contradictory idea )
The fetish is a material confusion of social relations. I.e. it's not being able to enjoy something because we don't own it when naturally (when property relations are dissolved) we do.
Thanks
The relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labour is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labour.
i think yeah, if you think of capitalist wealth (or something similar) as the products of our labour!
cos tbh i still want to legally own the stuff that i create. and i don't much care about whether someone's new pair of glasses are nicer than my current pair of glasses. but boy do i want a fuck off big house. maybe it's a schiz thing?
In that world the productions of the human brain appear as independent beings endowed with life, and entering into relation both with one another and the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men’s hands.
this is hard to disagree with. and yet it just doesn't conflict with my thesis!
who can seriously say that commodity fetishism does not have to be replaced with something more and better that genuine friendships, or something like that.
(wrong forum. should be in thought
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