Abstract

PIQUERAS INFANTE, Andrés. Considerations on value and its relationship with democracy and other capitalist fetishes. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.31-44. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i49.6191.

The paper intends to show the binding relationship that exists in the mode of capitalist production between merchandise, value and profit, as its basic categories, and politics as an artificially separated sphere of society. This is intended to reveal, on the one hand, the false appearance of the autonomy of politics in these societies, and on the other the illusory forms of democracy that accompany it, because the demands of value turned capital prevail above any social, political, moral, aesthetic or religious considerations. Since objective possibilities of gaining surplus value and profitability due to capital overaccumulation are currently stuck, there is a corresponding decline in the democratic realizations -and especially in the options of reformism- in the political sphere, as the latter manifests itself as an expression of the law of value.

Keywords : Merchandise; Value; Fetishization; Reformism; Democracy.

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