commodity fetishism

The Fetish Speaks! - Marx and Perlman

Fredy Perlman, Detroit Printing Co-op, 1970s

Marx spoke of the commodity - now the commodity speaks of Marx (and itself). PDF of illustrated quotations from 'Capital'.

First printed in Black & Red No. 5 January 1969. Reprinted as a fold-out concertina leaflet by Black & Red, Detroit, 1973.

Commodity Fetishism - Fredy Perlman

Fredy Perlman's 1968 Introduction to I.I. Rubin's "Essays on Marx's Theory of Value", Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1973.

Commodity Fetishism and Reification - Mike Rooke

A clearly written essay on Lukacs, Marx and philosophy, the commodity form, Marxism(s), market 'socialism', the critique of political economy versus 'Marxist' economics etc...

"Mike Rooke has a background as a political activist and teaches at Ruskin College, Oxford."

From; Common Sense No. 23, 1998.

Syndicate content