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| Question 180: How can someone who understands that value comes from labor still have a fetishistic view of social relations under capitalism? |
| [83] Kids: The fetishistic view of social relations Marx points out that relations among people are realized through things, and that this is the only way they can be realized in a commodity economy. In the society, labor is devoted to production and goods produced by them are distributed among the members of society. This means that the process of production of commodity society has its origin in the social relations among people. In other words, the fetishistic character of the commodity has its origin in the social character of the labor which produces commodities. |
| The starting point of the labor theory of value is a determined social environment. The value of the commodity is determined by the quantity of labor socially necessary for its production. |
| The fetishistic character likewise influence the whole atmosphere of capitalist economy, and analyze how the working activity of people is regulated. Capitalism is a commodity econommy, in which social relations among people are established through the exchange of things. In the capitalist economy, production-work relation among people need to get the value of things, and then social labor can only be expressed in value. They asserts themselves as a part of the labor society only through the relation which the act of exchange establishes between products. |
| The labor theory of value is based on the fetishistic view of social production relation which explain the regulation of labor in a commodity economy. |
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