What is not meant by fetish:

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2. The table as use-value and as commodity As ause-value, a table is simply a table: as a material object, it can be used for various purposes (to eat or write on, as firewood, etc.). As a commodity, the table becomes «mysterious» … … as soon as it emerges as a commodity, it changes into a thing which transcends sensuousness. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head … (p. 163)

3. The enigma of the commodity form Whence, then, arisestheenigmaticcharacteroftheproductoflabour, assoonasitassumestheform of a commodity? Clearly, itarisesfromthis form itself. (p. 164)

4. The solution of the enigma ... The mysterious character of the commodity-form consists therefore simply in the fact that the commodity reflects the social characteristics of men’s own labouras […]the socio-natural properties of these things. (pp. 164–65)

5. Private independent producers I assume pants will sell well. I hope that there will not be too many tables on the market. I am speculating that the market needs tables. I suspect there is a great need for chairs. I bet I can sell all of my pants.

6. The total labour of society The private producers A, B, C, D, and E produce the products a, b, c, d, e, which are to be exchanged on the market as commodities. A a c b C B Exchange on the market E e The total labourof society e and d are not exchanged. The labour expended on them is not part of the total labour of society. a, b and c are exchanged. The labour expended upon them becomes part of the total labour of society, and has the character of abstract labour. d D

7. Social relations between things – material relations between people

8. Agency and consciousness … by equating their different products to each other in exchange as values, they equate their different kinds of labour as human labour. They do this without being aware of it.(pp. 166–67)

9. Reification and naturalization = The chair has a value: always and everywhere.

10. Examples of naturalization That which is only valid for this particular form of production appears «to those caught up in the relations of commodity production» (p. 167) as natural, trans-historical and final: Product of labour Commodity Relations between things Relations between people Concrete useful labour Abstract human labour

11. … Things that control them …

12. Association of free men What do we need? Let’s get it organized! And howmuch? Who can and wants to do something?

13. Critique of political economy I As regards value in general, classical political economy in fact nowhere distinguishes […] between labour as it appears in the value of a product, and the same labour as it appears in the product’s use-value. (p. 173, footnote 33)

14. Critique of political economy II Political economy has indeed analysed value and its magnitude, however incompletely, and has uncovered the content concealed within these forms. But it has never once asked the question why this content has assumed that particular form … (pp. 173–74)