original_query: What is the concept of commodity fetishism in Marxist philosophy?
query: What is the concept of commodity fetishism in Marxist philosophy?
answer: In Marxist philosophy, commodity fetishism describes the relationships of production and exchange as social relationships among things (money and merchandise) rather than among people.  It presents value as inherent to commodities, obscuring the interpersonal relations that produced them.  This distorts our understanding of how labor and social organization are mediated through market exchange.