Published August 15, 2022 | Version v1
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Il rapporto sociale «che si presenta in una cosa». Legge del valore, carattere di feticcio e metodo della Critica dell'economia politica: una lettura del primo capitolo del Capitale

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The first chapter of Marx’s Capital revolves around the connection between the criticism of commodity
fetishism (arising from the non-illusory fetish-character of commodities and money) and the theory of its
value. The latter seeks to explain the very commodity-form of the product of labour; the former, its distorted,
naturalized and abstract manifestation at the cognitive ‘surface’ of modern market relations, as
unconsciously reproduced by ‘bourgeois’ economic science. Thus, that connection describes the ‘objective’
or ‘thing-like’ form taken by these relations, both as a deception and as a real structure of the relations
themselves. These theoretical connections, as well as the relative method Marx invented and followed in his
Critique of political economy, have been fully defined only by recent authors and studies.

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