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This 10 page paper evaluates Marx's fetishism of commodities in relation to Marxist aesthetics. Various Marxist theories are explored, inclusive of alienation. The paper suggests that art is dying in postmodern times due to widespread capitalism. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the person who made it, how one can create their own space and it reflects them, and through these ideas there is a sense that objects take on more than
they appear. In literature, authors use personification to bring inanimate objects to life. And while this trend to create things that possess unique characteristics of any individual appears new and
unique, it is not really a new idea. In fact, more than a century ago, Karl Marx looked at the commodity and saw that the end product was essentially a
culmination of all the work that went into it. Marx, known for his labor theory of value, went further to suggest that his ideas are something of a fetish. Marxs
labor theory of value suggests that the value of an object is completely a result of the labor expended to produce it (Ernsbergerm , 2002). It further states that the
more labor or time goes into an object, the greater its worth (2002). When it comes to commodities, Marx holds that they are endowed with other attributes and are more
than what they appear on the surface. Marx (1887) explains that a commodity appears quite a trivial thing and is easily understood. He goes on to call it a
queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). Assuming that it is a value in use, there is nothing that is perplexing about it,
and it is simple whether or not one considers the problem from the point of view that by properties it is capable of satisfying human wants, or from the
view that properties are the product of human labor (1887). Man through his industry changes the forms of the materials which are furnished by nature, in such a
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