Vol. I, Ch. 1, Sec. 1
Famous opening: 'The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities.'
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From Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx
Marx opens Capital with the commodity as the elementary form of capitalist wealth, distinguishing use-value from exchange-value and exposing how social relations between people appear as relations between things.
Vol. I, Ch. 1, Sec. 4
The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret: commodities become 'social hieroglyphics'; relations between producers take the form of relations between things.
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Comparison to religion where 'the productions of the human brain appear as independent beings endowed with life.'
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