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citizens united and the fetishism of the corporation67Marx spoke of the fetishism of commodities, explaining that commoditiesappear to have intrinsic value just because they are traded, bought and sold.But whatever value any commodity has that determines its price is the resultof the human labor that went into forming it. A piece of furniture does notemerge full blown from the trunk of a tree. Rather, that trunk is transformedinto a chair or desk through human intervention.Similarly, corporations act only through their shareholders, officers,boards and employees. Most importantly, when a corporation exercises itspresumed “right” to speak, the speech does not reflect the views of the corporation,because the corporation is no more capable of having an opinionthan are the desks and chairs in its office. The opinions expressed are thoseof the people who control and manage the corporation.