The fetish speaks! - Marx and Perlman

Fetish speaks

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

Update: Images restored by Counseling Communism as a printable zine is available (print doubled sided, flip short edge)!

Submitted by Red Marriott on January 7, 2008

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

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UseValueNotExc…

1 year 3 months ago

Submitted by UseValueNotExc… on November 10, 2023

New restored zine uploaded - check it out!

UseValueNotExc…

1 week 3 days ago

Submitted by UseValueNotExc… on February 12, 2025

A separate PDF with newer translations of fetishism and the trinity formula has been added.

Someone with graphic design skills could update the comic?

westartfromhere

1 week 2 days ago

Submitted by westartfromhere on February 13, 2025

'The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. And for a society based upon the production of commodities, in which the producers in general enter into social relations with one another by treating their products as commodities and values, whereby they reduce their individual private labour to the standard of homogeneous human labour—for such a society, Christianity with its cultus of abstract man, more especially in its bourgeois developments, Protestantism, Deism, &c., is the most fitting form of religion.'