CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frantz Fanon, Simone De Beauvoir, The Color Purple
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In the act of seeing, of course, light is really transmitted from one thing, the external object, to another thing, the eye. It is a physical relation between physical things. As against this, the commodity-form and the value-relation of the products of labor within which it appears, have absolutely no connection with the physical nature of the commodity and the material relations arising out of this. It is nothing but the de nite social relation between men themselves which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things. I call this fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labor as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities. Looking, with such passion and single mindedness, at non-dominant groups has had the effect of reproducing the sense of the oddness, differentness, exceptionality of these groups, the feeling that they are departures from the norm.