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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things”
Capital, Volume I, Chapter I: Commodities, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
From the section on the fetishism of commodities, where Marx argues that market prices disguise relations between producers as if they were properties of the goods themselves.
Citation: "a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things" — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter I: Commodities, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q3)
