commodity fetishism

Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism - Franz Jakubowski (1936)

Apparently freely available online for the first time here, this 1930s book is far less well known than its subject matter. With an admirable clarity of style, Jakubowski provides a summary of the main themes of Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness and Korschs' Marxism and Philosophy (Korsch was a personal friend of Jakubowski.)

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.

The text of Rubin's book can found online here; http://www.marxists.org/archive/rubin/value/index.htm

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.

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