Boreas Podcast
Boreas Podcast
George Boreas
Marx's Materialist Fetish
47 minutes Posted Dec 7, 2025 at 1:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Karl Marx wrote how the bourgoisie feishized commodities—but what if he was blind to his own deeper fetish? In this episode, I argue that Marx only went halfway: he scorned capitalist markets while remaining utterly entranced by the altar of production itself. His enchantment was of the archaic or violent-sacred kind, and so it lead to archaic mobilization, persecution, and aesthetics. Part 2 of a 5-part series. Retry