:read-theory:
Imagine looking at a giant sex appliance and thinking that it has value independent of the hard working sex appliance laborers that created it.
Commodity fetishism does NOT mean you want to fuck mass produced objects, it refers to the relations of production and exchange under capitalism being seen as relationships between commodities (money and products) rather than between people, and therefore the perception that they have intrinsic value rather than value created by the labor invested in their production.
As against this, the commodity-form, and the value-relation of the products of labour, within which it appears, have absolutely no connection with the physical nature of the commodity and the material relations arising out of this. It is nothing but the definite social relation, between men, themselves, which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things. In order, therefore, to find an analogy, we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. There the products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations, both with each other and with the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men's hands. I call this the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is, therefore, inseparable from the production of commodities.
- Capital, Vol. 1, by Karl Marx
mean you want to fuck mass produced objects
:I-was-saying:
Can't hear you over the sound of me blowing out the back walls of these pork bellies, comrade.
