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Commodity fetishism is a concept in Marxist theory. It describes the belief, under capitalism, that value is simply a quality of commodities rather than a quality of the society in which those commodities are produced and exchanged. According to Marx, this is a misleading belief, and a key part of the false consciousness of capitalist society.

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  • Commodity fetishism is a concept in Marxist theory. It describes the belief, under capitalism, that value is simply a quality of commodities rather than a quality of the society in which those commodities are produced and exchanged. According to Marx, this is a misleading belief, and a key part of the false consciousness of capitalist society.
  • Commodity Fetishism is a phrase coined by Karl Marx to describe the distortion of perception caused by commodification: a social relationship between people (between capitalists and exploited laborers) instead assumes "the fantastic form of a relation between things." This is the result of what David McNally describes a "profound and thorough-going restructuring of human experience: people's sense of their own bodies, of their capacities and creative energies, of the interelation of self and things, and of self and others..."
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  • Commodity fetishism is a concept in Marxist theory. It describes the belief, under capitalism, that value is simply a quality of commodities rather than a quality of the society in which those commodities are produced and exchanged. According to Marx, this is a misleading belief, and a key part of the false consciousness of capitalist society.
  • Commodity Fetishism is a phrase coined by Karl Marx to describe the distortion of perception caused by commodification: a social relationship between people (between capitalists and exploited laborers) instead assumes "the fantastic form of a relation between things." This is the result of what David McNally describes a "profound and thorough-going restructuring of human experience: people's sense of their own bodies, of their capacities and creative energies, of the interelation of self and things, and of self and others..."
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