Category: Commodity Fetishism
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Part 3: Unveiling the Digital Fetishism: Exploring the Hidden Social Relations Behind Information, Data, and Privacy
In Karl Marx’s work “Capital,” he introduced the concept of commodity fetishism, wherein the social relations between people are obscured by the exchange-value of commodities. While Marx primarily applied this concept to traditional commodities, such as goods and services, its relevance extends to the realm of information, data, and privacy in our digital age. In…