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ABSTRACT

Marx´s exposition on the determination of consciousness regarding the general social relation of capitalist society in its simple form, the commodity form, is examined in this chapter. Through a detailed analysis of the commodity fetishism section, the unity between commodity as a social relation and the consciousness form of private producers is examined and contrasted to the exterior relation between both forms that underlies in many contemporary Marxist approaches. The chapter also features a debate regarding the generic determination of consciousness as the regulation of the human labour process and its specific historical form of fetishist consciousness.

KEYWORDS: Capital; Marx; Value; Commodity fetishism

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