The Commodity Fetishism

The distance is now from my perceived hand to the conceived mouth of somebody else. I can't even see the seller. That's why I'm producing it to get rid of it, so it's to sell it. This is alienating. It shakes up his self-confidence. It destroys his joy and creation. When production was for use, it was conducted in the spirit of conviviality. Now it is conducted in thespirit of worry and competitiveness. All attention is now concentrated on the commodity as an entity, as an article to be sold. What is hidden in the commodity and forgotten is all the labor, all the sweat, all the social relations that went into making the