https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/91d12910-3683-42da-b210-4702edfc0b9b Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarxistPaul Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarxistPaul Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marxistpaul Ko-Fi (One-time donation): https://ko-fi.com/marxistpaul Reading: Marx (1867), Capital Volume 1, Chapter 1 - Section 4: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4 Videos/Podcasts: The Marxist Project, "Fundamentals of Marx: Commodity Fetishism" (excellent video): https://youtu.be/rmjUkKAY9DI Red Menace Podcast, "The Fundamentals of Marxism: Intro to Political Economy" (68:35 onwards): https://redmenace.libsyn.com/political-economy If you dive into reading Capital, David Harvey's accompanying work is really helpful for unpacking the text. Both his book, A Companion to Marx's Capital ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7316687-a-companion-to-marx-s-capital ), as well as his lecture course here on YouTube. For Capital Vol 1, Chapter 1, which contains the section on Commodity Fetishism, watch the first and second lecture of Harvey's series here: Class 1: https://youtu.be/gBazR59SZXk Class 2: https://youtu.be/zwuMrd_Hgww Marx Quote (Capital Vol 1, Ch. 1, Sect. 4): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4 General Resources: MLM Basic Course: http://bannedthought.net/MLM-Theory/MLM-Intro/MLM-BasicCourse-CPI(Maoist)-2016-OCR.pdf Learn from the Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/ AzureScapegoat’s Socialism101 site: https://www.socialism101.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:58 Title 01:26 "Fetish"? 02:37 Marx's Commodity Fetishism 04:57 A Thought Experiment 06:35 Recap 07:15 Further Study 07:46 Credits Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:53:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/91d12910-3683-42da-b210-4702edfc0b9b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.