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Well I am not really politically strongly opionated in any direction nor am I a great philosopher, but I've seen this yesterday and I thought to myself: yes that reflects my own thoughts.
The whole IPhone phaenomenom, when everybody needed to buy that phone for no apparent practical or technical reason that all can be related to whats said here:
He says that commodities are traded like a religious fetish, an image of the real work people did. And like God is being an invention of the human mind, ruling the human mind; those fetishes are ruling the minds of the people living in a society of commodities thinking they are enlighted.
So to make a big Ne-leap here, what do you think ? Is us being here today discussing who we are the direct result of what's said above ? Has our fixation on commodities mystified human relations ? What is your opinion ?
The whole IPhone phaenomenom, when everybody needed to buy that phone for no apparent practical or technical reason that all can be related to whats said here:
In Marx's critique of political economy, commodity fetishism denotes the mystification of human relations said to arise out of the growth of market trade, when social relationships between people are expressed as, mediated by and transformed into, objectified relationships between things (commodities and money).
The concept of commodity fetishism plays a crucial role in Marx's theory of capitalism, because it links the subjective aspects of economic value to its objective aspects, through the transformation of a symbolization of value into a reification which attains the power of an objective social force.[1] It plays an integral part in Marx's explanation of why economic relationships and interactions in capitalism often appear quite differently from what they really are. The concept is introduced at the conclusion of an analysis of the value-form of commodities in the first chapter of Marx's main work, Das Kapital. Subsequently he clarifies in Das Kapital that many different economic phenomena can be "fetishized" (the fetish of money, the fetish of interest-bearing capital, etc.) to the extent that they attain an independent power vis-a-vis the people.[2] But these further developments of commercial fetishism nevertheless have their historical origin in commodity trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism
He says that commodities are traded like a religious fetish, an image of the real work people did. And like God is being an invention of the human mind, ruling the human mind; those fetishes are ruling the minds of the people living in a society of commodities thinking they are enlighted.
So to make a big Ne-leap here, what do you think ? Is us being here today discussing who we are the direct result of what's said above ? Has our fixation on commodities mystified human relations ? What is your opinion ?