1. The Devil And Commodity Fetishism In South America
... labourer was forced to work in the fields because the capitalist agribusiness had swallowed (as the peasants would come to fetishise, in their description of the cane) up their lands, or mode of production. This dehumanising alienation that blotted out the priority of human relationships led to the fetishising of the cane as a "green monster, the great cane, god of the landlords"(p.122), giving the cane an identity not attributed to "things" in their pre conquest animistic ... conquest. This is used to illustrate that Marxist socialism liberates man from the alienation of a commodity dr...
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