User:RD/9k/Capital volume 1 (Q1867)

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Societies forget workers are connected
/ Societies forget the relationship of workers to workers (workers to corporation; workers to proletarian class) because society is covered in relationships from corporations to corporations (commodity to commodity, product to product; owner to owner; owner to bourgeois class) [1] / commodity fetishism (generic) / abstraction of human labor (generic) / universality of commodity form (generic) [2] -> which word is this again? early Marxism makes a lot of sense but sometimes I get lost in exactly what term I'm talking about. I'm glad I made a system where concepts can be entire propositions because that's so much pronounced easier. I think this proposition is commodity fetishism. it's about the idea that products sell for something because 'that's what the product is' and not because workers exist or even because individual virtuosos exist. I just made it really obvious by associating products with capitalists who are going to take credit for planning them or at least put out a lot of hype about them