Avantika Panda
Subject: Literary Method
Professor: Akhil Katyal
Final Term Paper
Submission: 25/11/15
Q6.Marx suggests that the fetishism of commodities implies a veiling of the actual workplace. Explain using any one poet in the syllabus.
Unveiling the Veil
A “Fetish” can be defined as an activity or object that you are so interested in that you spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about it or doing it, a fetish for any object should be seen as very normal, so what is different with Fetishism of Commodity? Commodity fetishism is the way in which commodities acquire a value in an economic exposition that leads to the overpowering of the value itself instead of the labour of production of the commodity. Marx idea that the fetishism …show more content…
The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. His labour is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labour. Its estranged character becomes obvious when one sees that as soon as there is no physical or other coercion, labour is avoided like the plague. This alienated labour, this labour, in which human beings alienate themselves from themselves, is a labour of self-denial and self-torture. Finally, the alienation of labour manifests itself to the labourer in that this labour does not belong to him, but to someone else; it does not belong to him; while he is doing it he does not belong to himself, but to another. . . . the activity of the labourer is not his own activity. It belongs to someone else, it is the loss of his self."(Karl …show more content…
Workers become autonomous, self-realized human beings, but are directed and diverted into goals and activities dictated by the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production in order to extract from workers the maximal amount of surplus value possible within the current state of competition between
Subject: Literary Method
Professor: Akhil Katyal
Final Term Paper
Submission: 25/11/15
Q6.Marx suggests that the fetishism of commodities implies a veiling of the actual workplace. Explain using any one poet in the syllabus.
Unveiling the Veil
A “Fetish” can be defined as an activity or object that you are so interested in that you spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about it or doing it, a fetish for any object should be seen as very normal, so what is different with Fetishism of Commodity? Commodity fetishism is the way in which commodities acquire a value in an economic exposition that leads to the overpowering of the value itself instead of the labour of production of the commodity. Marx idea that the fetishism …show more content…
The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. His labour is therefore not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labour. Its estranged character becomes obvious when one sees that as soon as there is no physical or other coercion, labour is avoided like the plague. This alienated labour, this labour, in which human beings alienate themselves from themselves, is a labour of self-denial and self-torture. Finally, the alienation of labour manifests itself to the labourer in that this labour does not belong to him, but to someone else; it does not belong to him; while he is doing it he does not belong to himself, but to another. . . . the activity of the labourer is not his own activity. It belongs to someone else, it is the loss of his self."(Karl …show more content…
Workers become autonomous, self-realized human beings, but are directed and diverted into goals and activities dictated by the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production in order to extract from workers the maximal amount of surplus value possible within the current state of competition between