MDSB25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neoconservatism, Labour Power, Monopoly Capital
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Commodification is a process of change, structuration is a bout change, spatialization is about change. How capitalism transforms social life, by understanding theses as processes, we can challenge these processes. Understanding the ideas of use value and exchange value. Commodification as the process of transforming use value into: transforming products whose value is determined by their ability to meet individual social needs into products whose value is set by their market price (m. p. 132) Commodities themselves are the mystified objects that result: to us, capitalism literally appears as an immense collection, fetishism of commodities (m, p. 129) Will see that there is no problem with commodifying the family process. The commodity form and marx"s analysis of capitalism. Begins with control of the means of production by the forces of from the process capital: land, labour. Workers exchange their labour power for wages (ie commodification of labor)
