“That this subjective element in the commodity is reified turns the human relationship implied in it into a relation between objects. This inversion Marx calls the ‘fetishism of commodities’: an expression of human creativity appears to be a natural object. The inversion also emerges in the failure of the capitalist to appear as a person in social relations rather than a predicate of capital; not only the workers, but the capitalists as well, are stripped of their personality. Men are degraded to the status of objects, and objects receive human attributes. Society ceases to be a texture of inter human relations and appears to be a system dependent on objects and objective laws.”
— Shlomo Avineri, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. Chapter Four: “Alienation and Property” (via hochelaga-maisonneuve)
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