Transcription of Chapter One: Commodities SECTION 4
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Karl Marx. Capital volume One Part I: Commodities and MoneyChapter One: CommoditiesSECTION 4 THE FETISHISM OF Commodities AND THE SECRET THEREOFA commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the point of view that by its properties it is capable of satisfying human wants, or from the point that those properties are the product of human labour.
Capital Volume One ... what they really are, material relations between persons and social relations between things. It is only by being exchanged that the products of labour acquire, as values, one uniform social status, distinct ...
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