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Introduction to Theory: Karl Marx

Money on the Left

CHAPTER

The Fetishism of the Commodity

The wage relation is essentially the comodification of human sensuous labor time. So this text is all about critiquing it, unveiling it in an enlightenment sensibility. It works through the abstraction of mass and equivalents. And it makes abstract equivalents out of our our heterogeneous, temporal labor together.

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