El lugar de la categoría de fetichismo en la crítica de la economía política: una crítica a Anselm Jappe

• Autor: Canales Rengifo, Gino
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/196462
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/estudiosdefilosofia/article/view/27911/25908; https://doi.org/10.18800/estudiosdefilosofia.202301.005
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Marx; Jappe; Fetishism; Contradiction; Critical theory of value; Labor theory of value; Fetichismo; Contradicción; Crítica del valor; Teoría del valor; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.03.01

Against Anselm Jappe’s interpretation of the commodity fetishism as capitalism’s main contradiction, I argue that his work is afflicted by an oversizing of fetishism as a concept that is both deterministic and reductionist, and that his understanding of contradiction in Marx’s work is simplistic. As an alternative, I offer an interpretation of fetishism, which takes as a starting point the idea that the commodity crystallizes capitalist society’s social relations as well as a defense of contradiction as capitalism’s dynamic engine rather than as a paradoxical point of it.