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Fatalism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/rappoport/1911/fatalism.htm
Reification
- "to make a thing"
- "labour objective and independent of them"
- Relations are established only through actions undertaken to sustain enagement with the commodity economy and they appear as natural or concrete is a delusion
- Caused by "commodity fetishism"
- Commodities are produced to be exchanged (rather than used), which means they are created for the exchange and no longer can be evaluated insofar of their intended use. The only use which matter, in the perspective of the Marxist, is as a tool of oppression
Producers
People's activity, no longer connected to the things they produce, and the inscription of social relations onto a product
People fail to see that certain social structures (relations) are established and sustained only by their own actions (classical social constructionism focuses on this side); thereby, the bond between the product and the producer is broken
Paper
"The opponents of our method and theory – bourgeois scientists, and Syndicalist or Anarchist doctrinaires – are in accord in urging against Marxism the accusation which men like Guyot, of vulgar political economy, levelled of old against Socialism in general: they say we are guilty of an attack upon the individual, of an attempt upon liberty."
So anyone who opposes these guys, their ideas or their methods are automatically captured by "capitalist ideology", as evidenced by the fact that they disagree! It demands obedience and elimination of free thought, as one must be certain to not put forth an expression which conflicts with the pronouncements of the theory!
"we hear vituperation against “the Socialist tyranny,” against “the future slavery,” and, above all, against the “suppression of individual liberty” – of capitalists!"
Indeed, all those who would preserve individual liberty, be concerned about collective enslavement or a tyranny which describing itself as Socialist would specifically be capitalists! Having such concerns MAKES you a capitalist because otherwise you would be eager to advocate for and help realize Socialism.