39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
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The Commoditi's Substitute of Subjectivity
The fetishized commodity form, this substitution where social relations appear as abstract, objective features, becomes the exclusive form of appearance of objects. This abstraction makes everything a matter of detachable properties. We become these isolated, atomized individuals in bourgeois society. And the products of our labor confront us as an alien power that seems to follow objective laws that escape our control.
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