SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodity Fetishism, Fetishism, False Consciousness
5 Apr 2017
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Money: a common denominator, an independent expression to make unequal things as equal it appears as a mysterious independent being, as god! Money: mediating between men and their desires, universal pimp . Makes us value things that have no value in their nature. Makes us judge others based on economic situations not humanity. A jobless man does not have the same dignity as suppose to the wealthy. Humans do not have a fixed nature which exists independently of the society they live in: the individual is the social being . Because humans developed consciousness, their labor is distinguished from that of animals. The species-nature of animal is an eternal repetition. Through working not only the natural world, but also the social world alerts. Commodity fetishism: through an imperious power of commodity over humans, they submit themselves to what are in fact products of their own. Not only reification, but also alienation is the result of capitalism.
