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• @communism@lemmy.ml 2026-01-07 00:52

  The commodity fetish isn't about "everyone trying to make money all the time"... The commodity fetish explains the obfuscation of social relations. Not people trying to make money. People try to make money because it can be exchanged for goods and services, believe it or not. > And what observable effect does that have on the world that isn’t exactly what OP is describing? One could say: * The failure of workers to identify that they are members of an entire working class, rather than employees of different workplaces * The appearance of political/social relations as natural and transhistorical parts of the world * Arguably, the course of pretty much every attempted socialist project. The commodity fetish is central to Marx's project. [This book](https://www.marxists.org/archive/rubin/value/index.htm) is a good argument on the significance of the commodity fetish for Marx. I don't understand this ridiculous anti-intellectualism. Why reference Marx if you seem to refuse to actually learn what he said?

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