SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tiny House Movement, Profit Motive, Culture Jamming
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Consuming life: there is a definite social relation between [humans], that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things. In order, therefore, to find an analogy, we must have recourse to the mist-enveloped regions of the religious world. 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. This fetishism of commodities has its origin in the peculiar character of the labour that produces them. : marx, 1867/1981, capital, commodities", p. 447. The circuit of capital (from das kapital, v. 2: buying people, & things. The circuit of capital (2) (from das kapital, v. 2: third stage: the capitalist returns to the market as a seller; his commodities are turned into money; they pass through the circulation act. For a good capitalist, m" > m (profit!) For a good proletarian, m" = m (justice!)