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  1. Feb 2020
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    Chapter 1 - Commodities
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    1. averywiscomb 09 Feb 2020
      The coat is a use value that satisfies a particular want

      Marx: "Yesterday I pawned a coat dating back to my Liverpool days in order to buy writing paper" (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, vol. 38 [1852-55]: 221).

      On the significance of Marx's coat, see Peter Stallybrass, “Marx’s Coat,” in Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces, ed. Patricia Spyer (New York: Routledge, 1998): 183–207. [PDF].

      Commodity Fetishism Use Value Exchange Value CMRG-CMU Coat Peter Stallybrass Fetish Fetishism PDF
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