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38 Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
of wage labor under capitalist conditions. But until the capitalist institutions
have permeated all aspects of economic life and the revolution
in the mode of production is complete, the lower classes will
persist in viewing the bonds between persons in their modern economic
activities for what they really are—asymmetrical, nonreciprocal,
exploitative, and destructive of relationships between
persons—and not as natural relations between forces supposedly inherent
in potent things.