[lbo-talk] Re: [lRe: group vs individual (commodity fetishism)

[Thomas Seay]

--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> Ken writes:
> 
> "Capitalism, by decimating the core majoritarian
> underpinnings
> of society (family, church, etc.), is actually
> creating a greater
> respect for the individual worker than any previous
> system (that we know
> of;"

Sorry for reading this out of context...I pulled this
from Joanna's comment.  However, I dont think respect
for the individual is the right term.  What happens
under capitalism by way of "commodity fetishism" is
that the social nature of work gets hidden more and
more under and so we get the impression that the world
is created by lone individuals.

Any criticisms we might make of Marx, his discussion
of commodity fetishism is among his most important, if
not THE MOST IMPORTANT, of his contributions.

-Thomas Seay

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