In Capital Marx writes: “The fetishism of commodities has its origin
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- In Capital Marx writes: “The fetishism of commodities has its origin...in the peculiar social character of the labor that produces them.” What is this social character? What is the relationship between fetishism and exchange? Or fetishism and use value/exchange value? What is the point of Marx’s critique? What is he saying about social relationships? How does his criticism compare to Weil’s critique of the fragmented nature of society?
- Many writers we have considered, Plato, Locke, Smith, and Marx have understood work to have an ethical dimension as well as an economic one. Work, it is argued, not only produces goods but it also produces discipline, recognition, and self-respect. However, this ethical dimension is often in contradiction to its economic function. Pick two philosophers and compare and contrast how they see the economic and ethical dimension of work. How do technology and the division of labor reinforce or undermine work’s ethical ideal?
