单词 | commodity fetishism |
释义 | > as lemmascommodity fetishism commodity fetishism n. [after German Fetischcharakter der Ware (1867 in the passage translated in quot. 1887); compare Warenfetischismus (1899 or earlier)] (in Marxist thought) the belief, in a capitalist society, that commodities are endowed with autonomous existence and intrinsic economic value independent of the investment of labour that went into their production (cf. reification n. 2); (in later use more generally) the tendency to place excessive value on material goods.Quot. 1887 shows fetishism of commodities in equivalent use, in a translation of Marx. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > of commodities commodity fetishism1936 1887 S. Moore & E. Aveling tr. K. Marx Capital I. i. i. 41 (heading) The fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof.] 1936 Sci. & Society 1 94 This extraordinary emphasis on mathematics can be understood if we remember that commodity-fetishism which dominates bourgeois economic thought. 1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Apr. (Saturday Extra section) 10 The ‘must-have’ hunger for nice things, the thrill of the shopping spree—commodity fetishism—is..part of our image of femininity. 2008 I. Armstrong Victorian Glassworlds 367/1 He invokes a range of disciplines—anthropology, ethnography, and discourse theory—Marxist criticism, for instance, capital, class, the division of labour, commodity fetishism. < as lemmas |
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