What is 'Commodity Fetishism' in a Marxist literary context?
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Correct answer: The tendency to perceive social relationships as objective relations between things
Marx used this term to describe how the labor and social struggle behind a product are hidden once it becomes a 'commodity.' In literature, this might be seen when the origins of wealth or the conditions of the poor are erased or aestheticized.
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