The Marxist Lens: Burnout and the Algorithm

https://tankie.tube/w/v2BwwNzWXB9Q18tjw517C1

Should Workers Get the Full Value of their Labour? | Marx’s Critique of Value

https://tankie.tube/w/tPtwGM6egQSy6Yk7wmfPRM

Fundamentals of Marx: The Commodity (REUPLOAD)

https://tankie.tube/w/hCF6txEgeD6TdDPgd2LWxJ

ஒருபுறம் செல்வக் குவிப்பு  மறுபுறம் துயரக் குவிப்பு- தோழர் டி கே ஆர்

தங்கம் மற்றும் வெள்ளியின் விலை வானளாவ உயர்ந்திருக்கிறது. 2024 ஜனவரியில் ஒரு அவுன்ஸ்(31 கிராம்) தங்கத்தின் விலை 2,063 டாலர் (₹1.72 லட்சம்) இருந்தது. 2025 அக்டோபரில் இது 4,000 டாலர் (₹3.35 லட்சம்) தாண்டியது. இது 94% உயர்வு! வெள்ளி 45 ஆண்டுகளின் உச்சமான 53.60 டாலர்  (₹4,487) அவுன்ஸ்-ஐ எட்டியது. இது இந்தியாவி…

https://pycpim.in/commodity-fetishism-gold-dollar-tkr/

#CommodityFetishism #தங்கம் #மூலதனம் #விலைஉயர்வு #வெள்ளி

"Emerging from the backdrop of Marx’s attempt to demonstrate impersonal agency being operative at all levels of society, there is an increasing tendency in Marxist scholarship to interpret the fetish character of capital not only in an epistemological framework, as the NML did, but also in ethical and political terms as a problem of freedom and domination. North and Reitter endorse this scholarly trend by including an essay by William Clare Roberts on the French translation that underscores the unfreedom of “market-dependent producers [that is, wage earners], who must sell in order to buy and buy in order to live” (RC, 722). This unfreedom in the market resembles the worker’s domination in the factory, and it suggests that Marx subscribed to a socially and politically comprehensive concept of freedom that is incompatible with social-democratic attempts to ameliorate the plight of workers by creating better working conditions. In other words, Marx’s imagination of what it means to be free is not exhaustively understood merely by citing his attention to struggles over the length of the working day and the alleviation of human toil through more rational coordination of the work process. Marx’s expanded concept of freedom will be at the center of a sequel to this essay, a review of contemporary scholarship exploring the evolution of Marx’s thought from his early journalism to his late scientific notebooks."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/more-marx-less-marxism-reconsidering-capital-volume-1-retranslated-by-paul-reitter/19E259370B761E527FB4ED8E68C344A3

#Marx #Capital #Capitalism #CriticalTheory #PoliticalEconomy #CommodityFetishism

Obscuring the Veil
Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

Ellyse Winter

#CommodityFetishism #Advertising #AnimalIndustrialComplex #PublicPedagogy #CriticalPedagogies #FoodPedagogies

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/377

https://defector.com/the-hawk-tuah-memecoin-rug-pull-is-the-apotheosis-of-bag-culture

Absent legacy-media prestige or any earlier, outdated marker of status, a way to distinguish yourself, to exhibit prestige, is to be an ambassador for a more prestigious brand. And as the modality of fandom shifts to something like worship, it is simple to see oneself as part of the process and potentially next in line for a big payday.

#capitalism #latecapitalism #alienation #commodityfetishism #cargocult

Burst of trades gives Trump a winning edge in election prediction markets https://www.ft.com/content/11ac92f4-02e4-4313-99b8-264182b74b4b?accessToken=zwAAAZKf6C5qkc8RrJL0AuRDE9OZuCZBgrdLSw.MEUCIQCcpJH88My7WUyInASlLiDj4tv3jlecT-IXsfGETsk8LAIgFCt-ix1Z6euE1sJ91EQbTk-D2023azOZQNWtM6YxXnA&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareId=0af97ae8-6907-4c63-ba04-f2d25a2d363d&shareType=enterprise

somebody might “want to move the price a few percentage points . . . to affect public beliefs about momentum for a candidate”.

#maga #disinformation #fascism #uspol #trump #polymarket #election2024 #commodityfetishism #propaganda

#Marx #Freud #WertKritik #CommodityFetishism #Capitalism #Psychoanalysis #Narcissism: "Jappe recognizes that the crux of Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is abstraction. Commodity fetishism is often understood to indicate something like consumerism: an overvaluation of a commodity, a consumer product, on the basis of desire that surpasses need or utility. Here the psychosexual connotations of the fetish sneak in the back door and pose as necessary considerations for a Marxist critique.

Marx’s use of the term in Capital Vol. I is meant somewhat ironically, mocking the limitations of the bourgeois intellect to comprehend its own constitutive categories. Marx was familiar with sociological and anthropological uses of the term, in which the fetish is a sensuous thing that takes on the qualities of the deity or deities and thus holds otherworldly power in its concrete form. Exemplary of pre-enlightenment religious animism, and hence an affront to the power of bourgeois instrumental reason over and against nature. Marx’s point is that what has become naturalized, what appears natural, in capitalism, is unreason, specifically manifested in persistent unfreedom in (social, political and economic) crisis, the unresolved and persistent self-contradiction of bourgeois society.

In Capital Vol. 1, Marx says, that ‘[t]he fetishism of commodities arises from the particular social character of the labor that produces them.’ By particular social character, Marx means the historically specific form of social relations in capitalist society, social relations mediated by labor. This appears totally natural and not as historically specific or created. The fetish-character of capital masks the essence of capitalist society as something distinct from its appearance, and hence, as something that can change."

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21688_the-self-devouring-society-capitalism-narcissism-and-self-destruction-by-anselm-jappe-reviewed-by-jamie-keesling/