• ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Marx talks about how markets create material relations between people (via markets), and thus a "social relation" between commodities. The Adjuster falls into this fetish.

    Whence, then, arises the enigmatical character of the product of labour, so soon as it assumes the form of commodities? Clearly from this form itself. The equality of all sorts of human labour is expressed objectively by their products all being equally values; the measure of the expenditure of labour power by the duration of that expenditure, takes the form of the quantity of value of the products of labour; and finally the mutual relations of the producers, within which the social character of their labour affirms itself, take the form of a social relation between the products.