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Marx’s Commodity Fetishism and the Hidden Theology of Capitalist Social Relations

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Marx’s commodity fetishism

Marx’s commodity fetishism remains disturbing because it names a social mystery that modern societies often prefer to treat as ordinary common sense: the fact that relations among people can appear, with no fraud and no priesthood, as relations among things.…

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