Could you go a little into the details of how commodity fetishism connects to climate destruction for the less well-read of us?
Commodity fetishism is about masking the relation between people (for example between the producer and the one that owns the producer’s labour) with the product and thinking the worth of a product is from the object itself. It may lead to hoarding of wealth but that’s an effect of the above relationship.
Climate change is because the above relationship is self produced through the concentration of profit to buy more labour-power, so the external costs such as the negative effects of carbon dioxide production does not have sufficient negative feedback within the short term into the above relationship ie the relationship continues despite the ill effect it may have long term on the labourer (as a class).
Takeaway: everytime you see a problem assigned to an “object” (tangible or not), try to unmask the relationship between classes of people that object embodies.
Commodity fetishism is about masking the relation between people (for example between the producer and the one that owns the producer’s labour) with the product and thinking the worth of a product is from the object itself. It may lead to hoarding of wealth but that’s an effect of the above relationship.
Climate change is because the above relationship is self produced through the concentration of profit to buy more labour-power, so the external costs such as the negative effects of carbon dioxide production does not have sufficient negative feedback within the short term into the above relationship ie the relationship continues despite the ill effect it may have long term on the labourer (as a class).
Takeaway: everytime you see a problem assigned to an “object” (tangible or not), try to unmask the relationship between classes of people that object embodies.