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What is the Marxist concept of ‘Fetishism of Commodities’?

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A fetish is a man-made object believed to have powers of its own. In the opening chapter of Capital, Volume I (1867), Karl Marx borrowed the term from the study of religion. Fetishism of commodities is the illusion by which a social relation between people takes "the fantastic form of a relation between things". Commodities…

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