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can somebody ELI5 commodity fetishism (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml to c/communism101@lemmygrad.ml

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This is something I never really understood in itself or why it's important in the first place. Modern day examples would definitely help.

Can somebody help me out?

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fetishisation and fetishism are similar, but not quite the same, as I understand it.

Fetishisation is related more to the overvaluation and/or sexualisation of something.

Fetishism is the process of making something a 'fetish'*, or the embodied form of abstract ideas which then supplants or discards the ideas it came to represent.

(*Similar to an 'idol' in the process of Idolatry)

I think I've got that right someone please step in if not. In common usage I think the two terms are basically interchangeable (let's say that searching either term online is almost NSFW) however in this case they are not.