  == Commodity fetishism ==  I appreciate your attention at this article.  As it stands the article has a long string of quotes from Marx.  My concern is that these quotes are strung together to forward an original argument - the text inbetween quotes often editorializes (I removed one of th most egregious examples a few days ago).    The thing is, I am familiar with most of the marx quotes and I acknowledge that they are relevant to the topic.  But I am not familiar with what I am sure is a vast secondary literature on the topic, aside from having read Lukacs and an aticle by Pietz a very long time ago. So I do not feel qualiied to lay out the different significant views.  Jurriann has a habid of making snide remarks about Althusser (even in the article itself - I deleted one of them) so I imagine Althusser too has a particular reading of Marx. (Jurriann used the same method in editing the article on reification, so Lukacs's views are hardly presnted, just long quotes from Marx).  I am not competent to fix these articles.  I am hoping you know the appropriate literature, or know other editors who do.  These articles really read like personal essays, not encyclopedia articles, yet thy are on topics that really are cntral to marxian thought - WP should be able to do better.    |   