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Understanding Reification in Marxism by Wanda Fernandez is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Reification refers to perceiving social relations as inherent attributes of people or objects rather than as relations between people. This transforms people into objects and objects into active subjects. Reification was not a major concept for Marx but was developed by Georg Lukács. Lukács analyzed reification as a problem in capitalist society related to the prevalence of commodities. Reification occurs when human creations are seen as natural rather than social. Scholars have debated Lukács
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- Wanda Fernandez
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- EN