I have created a set of flashcards for the third part of the fourth section of chapter one of Marx’s Capital, on Commodity Fetishism (see ???).
There are also previous flashcards for the earlier section of chapter 1 on that site (as well as on this blog).
Here is a copy of the flashcards:
1. Does the commodity form have any connection with the physical nature of the use value?
No.
2. Does the commodity form have any connection with the material relations that arise from the physical nature of use values?
No
3. The commodity form appears/does not appear in the material relations between commodities as use values.
does not
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4. Does the value relation in which the commodity form appears arise from the material relations between commodities as use values?
No
5. The nature of the commodity form is such that the relations between human producers and their needs assume the fantastic form of a relation between __________.
things
6. Things produced by human beings appear to enter into relation with each other and with human beings autonomously in a mystical way, similar to the mystical form of religion, where the products of human thought and imagination appear to exist autonomously and enter into relations with each other and with human beings.
autonomously; autonomously
7. The f________ of commodities involves the products of labour acquiring an existence i__________ of or autonomous from the producers.
fetishism; independent
8. Can fetishism cease to exist even when commodities are produced? Explain
No. Commodity production and the independent nature and relations of commodities go hand in hand or are inseparable.
9. The fetishism of commodities arises because of the s______ nature of the s______ c________ of labour that produces commodities–abstract labour.
specific; social character
10. The fetishism of commodities or their independence and the independence of their relations from the producers and their needs arise from the i__________ of the labours from each other–p_______ labour or a________ labour.
independence; private; abstract
11. The sum of all the private labours forms the a________ labour of a society.
aggregate
12. The social nature of the aggregate labour of society as e_____ labour (labour that must c_______ to an e_____ s______ s_______) does not appear or find expression until the producers relate to each other in the act of e_________.
equal; conform; equal social standard; exchange
13. The relations between the p_______ o_ l_____ that are established in exchange r______ b_____ upon the producers and establish r_______ between the p________.
products of labour; reflect back; relations; producers
14. Material relations between persons appear to be what they are: producers can only relate to each other through the m________ of commodities produced by them.
mediation
15. Social relations between things appear to be what they are: since work relations are not yet social or public as they are being performed, their social or public character finds expression in r_______ between t_______ or the commodities produced.
relations; things
