Exactly. That’s why I’m constantly yelling at people that Marx isn’t doing some kind of esoteric theological analysis. Don’t mystify it! He’s logically looking at the dominant mode of production, identifying the internal contradictions, and critiquing it.
He does do some level of discussion of that around the transformation of value to price. But what he is basically talking about is how the capitalist mystifies the process of that transformation, and thereby makes it appear natural, and in doing so, cuts himself a profit. In the same way, he also discusses the idea of fetishization of commodities and the commoditization of people.
In doing so though, he is not discussing esoteric processes. These are everyday processes that occur all the time.
Exactly. That’s why I’m constantly yelling at people
that Marx isn’t doing some kind of esoteric theological analysis. Don’t mystify it! He’s logically looking at the dominant mode of production, identifying the internal contradictions, and critiquing it.
He does do some level of discussion of that around the transformation of value to price. But what he is basically talking about is how the capitalist mystifies the process of that transformation, and thereby makes it appear natural, and in doing so, cuts himself a profit. In the same way, he also discusses the idea of fetishization of commodities and the commoditization of people.
In doing so though, he is not discussing esoteric processes. These are everyday processes that occur all the time.