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Come on, Marxie, let’s go party🩷

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    No, he did not.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism

    In the first chapter of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867), commodity fetishism is used to explain how the social organization of labour manifests in the buying and selling of commodities (goods and services). In the marketplace, social relations among people—who makes what, who works for whom, the production-time for a commodity, etc.—are represented as social relations among objects.[3]

    In the process of commercial exchange, commodities appear in a depersonalized form, obscuring the social relations inherent to their production.[4] Marx explained the sociology of commodity fetishism:

    As against this, the commodity-form, and the value-relation of the products of labour, within which it appears, have absolutely no connection with the physical nature of the commodity and the material relations arising out of this. It is nothing but the definite social relation, between men, themselves, which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things. In order, therefore, to find an analogy, we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. There the products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations, both with each other and with the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men's hands. I call this the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is, therefore, inseparable from the production of commodities.[5]

    According to Marx, the operation of commodity fetishism requires the owners of capital to actively ignore or maintain an indifference to the relational whole that produces a commodity.[6]

    tl:dr, Marx described that capitalism produces a semi-religious veneration for and obsession with products themselves, as a byproduct of alienating the worker from the work, from themselves, from their humanity, and from others.

    An extremely rough, modern, internet slang way to say it might be ‘you being a shopping addict is basically you just being kinky for capitalism’.

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I do like going shopping but that’s because then I get stuff, and having new stuff is cool. But you don’t need a capitalist hierarchy to make any of this happen

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  • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is blatant consumerist propaganda!

    Also shopping not fun. I want to walk into a store and pick up Balsamic Glaze and leave. I don’t want to have to assess the minute differences in weight, cost, and quality of 30 different products that are all in the same race to win over my dollar and maximize their profits.

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    • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A couple of years ago they started putting the per kg price under the item price in Germany. At first I thought that’s for idiots who cannot calculate. Now I absolutely love this. I hardly even check the item price anymore, my eyes go straight to per kg. Fuck my idiotic entitled smartass past self, per kg prices are the best thing that ever happened to capitalist supermarkets

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      • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In the US we have a mix of:

        • Price per individual unit
        • Price per entire unit
        • Price per weight
        • Price per volume

        And different products from the same category will choose different ones so you have to do the math anyway.

        E.g. Sometimes our berries will be sold in split tubs so you’ll get the price for the whole thing and then on the comparison tag a price for half the tub. That will be sitting next to a different brand of the same berry in a package 2oz smaller and it’s comparison text will have the price per Oz, sitting next to that is an entire other brand and it will list the price of the whole unit and in comparison will list the same price again labeled explicitly as “per unit”.

        Like every thing the US manages to shit out it’s an utterly terrible system.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a Marxist girl

    In a Marxist world

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  • cockmushroom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I won’t upvote this, but it did make me laugh

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  • Sly2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I heard that Marx was, ironically, rather financially irresponsible and often had money troubles. Once he had money he spent it all on parties and nice food and such.

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    • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gauche caviar of him ngl

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  • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbh I don’t get “shopping”/“retail therapy.” Obviously I have wants for luxuries, but usually I pine after these for months and hold off on the decision until I feel I have saved enough and worked hard enough to justify it. Spontaneously going out to buy luxury items is a much rarer impulse for me.

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    • FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah, Same here honestly

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah but have you tried just never thinking through the consequences of your actions? It seems like about 75% of people never do.

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    • YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really like shopping for clothes but I don’t buy new I always go thrifting. There is something so satisfy with finding a nice unique dress that fits right for $10.

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    • Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Iddon’t buy shit I need, but I can get behind the feeling. When I walk through the hardware store I would like to buy a grinder, a saw, a drill and many more things. Not that I need any of them, because most is already in lower quality at home, but I really would have fun buying shit.

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can still shop under communism

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My brother in the Invisible Pink Unicorn, you can still shop in communism. And whatever you need is free.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No you see capitalism is commerce, and both have always existed. Somehow everyone knows this true fact, which is super normal.

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      • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Obviously ancient history shows humans never had any trinkets, toys, or keepsakes until the Industrial Revolution/s

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you ever been to a free shop?

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly! All the stuff is yours AND you didn’t spend a dime!

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    • imperious_melange@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only at OPs mom’s house…

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, Usagi did go on to cure death and create a neo-socialist workers paradise while bloodlessly uniting all the people of earth…

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All the people of earth at that point were the few people in Japan that she happened to save from a global freeze. So, bloodlessly is probably not the right term for that.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Eeh, Great Freeze was an ecological disaster caused by sailor chaos. When Usagi is interred on the Silver Throne after revealing herself as Neo-Queen serenity, she restores the population to their rightful place on earth, then loses her daughter to time manipulation hijinks, which prompts her to ally with Sailor Mars embark on her great crusade to unite the Sailors and find her lost sons, accompanied by her loyal yet enigmatically powerful servant Mamodor…

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      More evidence yet that Capitalism wins over Marxist-Leninism the end.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well then do i have an opportunity to preach the good word of syndicalism to you.

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  • GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    💖🧸 come on Marxi, let’s go party 🎉💖

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If we have a communist revolution, then we can all go shopping at the free store!

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Artists not having to worry about money means they’ll all disappear though 😭 /s

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  • imperious_melange@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sidebar, actually accounting for human behavior isn’t as simple as telling people to not be cruel to one another.

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  • SoyaSuki@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get it now 🥲

    • Boris Yeltzin in an American 🇺🇸🦅Grocery Store:
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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s more of a climate critique between Russia and the US.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right.

        Because communism doesn’t exist, it’s completely free of problems.

        (not /s, by the way.)

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    compelling argument.

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  • nooch@lemmy.vg ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think he probably considered this - part of commodity fetishism?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah that’s when you get off on 5 tons of iron ore that you only symbolically own

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but under communism you have a leader who puts a collar on you and calls you a good puppy and you waf at them :3

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    • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d like to wear a collar and be called a good boy. That’s about as far as the fantasy goes. I don’t really like the puppy play stuff. Certainly things about it I like but not as a whole. Also if I may inquire, what is uniquely communist about that?

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Under capitalism, nobody calls you ‘cumrad’.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One side of me shuns consumerism.
    Other wants to participate in the stereotpical feminine tradition, out of spite.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thrift shopping!

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      • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I adore thrift shopping but it can become an easy way to lift your conscience after overconsumption. I have a friend who tries to buy nothing new and good for her and the environment, but she constantly treats herself to thrift shopping sprees, realizes that she doesn’t need most of it shortly after, and declutters boxes of stuff each week and puts them in “for free” giveaway cupboards in the city where, let’s be honest here, 80% of the stuff ends up getting trashed. Tldr: thrift whenever you can but it is no excuse to go berserk.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is shopping for groceries fun?

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  • url@feddit.fr ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didnt get it

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