PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Commodity Fetishism, Policy, Parental Leave
11 Jan 2017
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In becoming objective, product becomes something other than what gave life to it realized outside its creator. There are other forms of estrangement which exacerbate that divide. In capitalist society, key form of alienation: wage system defines exchange of labour for profit. Money dictates exchange relationships: the more labour produces, the less value it has value of commodity goes up, value of labour goes down. Page 73 the more the worker produces (in parentheses: profit reduced that"s not returned to the worker (excess); disenfranchisement taking away from someone what intrinsically belongs to them. Expropriation extraction of surplus value from labour. Capitalism is optimized when it can sell you something with the guarantee that you will later buy a new version. Every mode of production has to reproduce itself. Capitalism grows by making products finite there is nothing intrinsic about products which makes them replaceable they"re made that way. The value of the object is independent of you.
