Commodity

as due to differences in the relative cost of producing a particular commodity (Salvatore 1996). Another reason that cause international trade is driven by demand from the importing country. Definition of demand (Lipsey 1999) itself is the amount of a commodity to be purchased by households. Export demand means the number one export commodity demanded by a particular country. Factors that determine the demand for the commodity in the market described in Lipsey (1999), among…

novel that kept coming back to my mind while reading Irigaray’s essay. The value of the main woman character in this novel, Elizabeth, only comes to light when compared to the Monster, because they are both seen as comparable tradable goods. Thus, commodity here is applied to people not just inanimate items. Elizabeth, Victor Frankenstein’s almost sister whom he is to marry, is the epitome of the perfect women because she is chaste, quiet, and a homemaker. However, she is not the most…

capitalism is commodities, how these commodities are processed is dependent on which level of society is processing them. The laborer functions on the level where the circulation of commodities is C-M-C, the transformation of commodities into capital in order to exchange that capital for commodities (Appelrouth & Edles 2012). This cycle is normally one in which they never really get ahead, because the capital which they receive is barely enough to cover their purchased commodities. For Walmart…

Ziziphus mauritiana and the Muzarabani community. Wild fruits are widely managed and utilised in different parts of the world. In semi-arid region the dependence on the fruits vary from region to region. In semi-arid regions which are prone to natural hazards like Muzarabani have for years relied on wild fruits’ like Ziziphus mauritiana despite, the reliance of the people of the muzarabani community on Ziziphus mauritiana , serious academic considerations of Ziziphus mauritiana as is an…

As wrapped all the ideas and studies that Stuart Hall and Edward Said contend regarding the identity and culture, I connect them to Du Bois’s studies in regards to individual identity. To Du Bois, individual identity [as Garner and Hancock (2014) report] may be “asked by accounts that leave out some groups’ contributions” (p. 194). The authors emphasize that Du Bois also “outlines theory of the social construction of identity linked to the analysis of power and structural inequality” (2013:194).…

As per Marx, commodities have value, representing their intrinsic utility as well as a quantity of human labor related to the given commodities. A thing can have a use value, which “being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, has no existence apart from that commodity,” and an exchange value, “the proportion in which values in use of one sort are exchanged for those of another sort…

Nowadays, the consumption ingrained influencing the modern human society; there are several ways to explain the circumstance. Fiske states that “It is also worth nothing not only that the pleasures of control are found in the ownership of commodities through which people can create or modify the context of everyday life and thus many of the meanings it bears, but also that the consumer’s moment of choice is an empowered moment” (Fiske, 2011). Consumption, which is the foundation of continuing…

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…

Class Consciousness, this reification is “crucial for the subjugation of men’s consciousness” (Lukacs 1923). Reification essentially objectifies and reduces human beings to things. This concept of reification is directly linked to Marx’s ideas about commodity fetishism. Capitalist exfoliation establishes the workers and products of their labor as objects. It is further developed in human relations as people are unable to see themselves in relation with others; thus, human relationships are also…

explore the theory of Karl Marx and consumerism, as well as the idea of femininity being a spectacle itself within society. The first example of feminine identity being represented within The Ladies’ Paradise ([1883]2012) is the idea of women as a commodity: ‘It was Woman the shops were competing for so fiercely, it was Woman they were continually snaring with their bargains, after dazing her with their displays’ (Zola, [1883]2012, p.76). The fact that these women are being targeted by the…