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Full Idea
In Marx's view the essential factor in capitalism is that the encroachment of the commodity form into society fundamentally changes the world.
Gist of Idea
Capitalism changes the world, by socialising the idea of a commodity
Source
report of Karl Marx (works [1860]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 6 'Historical'
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.130
A Reaction
The main point is that people and their labour become commodities. Haven't animals always been treated as commodities? Clearly slave were commodities, long before capitalism. Capitalism universalises it?
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| 18653 | Marx rejected equal rights because they never actually treat people as equals [Marx, by Kymlicka] |
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| 23874 | Armies and businesses create moralities in which their activity can do no wrong [Marx, by Weil] |
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| 23372 | Liberals want the right to be separate, rather than for people to be united [Marx] |