Re: Re: Re: Query on Passage from "Ch. 6, Results..."

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom interprets Marx as saying:
> What capitalist domination in social relations requires is that people come
> to regard ownership as a relationship between a person and a thing.

While capitalist domination in social relations requires the fetishism of
commodities that obscures class relations -- so that, among other things,
ownership is seen as a mere relationship between a person and a thing (a
machine or whatever) -- part of Marx's analysis is that there is an
objective basis for this fetishism. The objective domination of life by
commodity production encourages fetishized conceptions to be embraced by
the participants in the system and orthodox economists.

which is to explain the origins my wrong explanation of what Marx said: I
was emphasizing the objective rather than the subjective side.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine