COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: For Marx, Commodity Fetishism, Gustave Le Bon
4 Oct 2018
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Things that we produce express the relationship between the producers" creation of the product and the consumerism receiving the product. The neutral relationships becomes more and more abstract: the labour work for capitalists, produce products not for their self but for wages. We will no longer control how long we can work, all the things we cannot control: marx: capitalism look over the way things are made. Capitalism divides people into different classes into the owners of the land, and the workers. Capitalism is now the dominant ideology over religion, forcing people into abstract relationships, now cut off that communal exchange of making things to trade amongst one another: commodity fetishism: a product is beyond its value. The price is use value, not the labour"s efforts: capitalism divided people into different class: for marx, is capitalism dominant ideology the way of thinking, which control people freedom. They sell their labour and time to profit.
