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Karl Marx’s 1867 writing, “The Fetishism of the Commodity and it’s Secret”, is definitely….dense. I think it will take a couple of readings to really understand it, but here are some of my impressions after reading it for the first time.  To my understanding, Marx is examining how the value of a commodity is dependent […]

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