It has become commonplace to say that the world is not for sale, that we must refuse the commodification of life. But nobody dares confront the central problem – where exactly are the roots of this lie, this perversion of reality that we lay at the door of money and consumption?
Returning to Marx’s analysis of the fetishism of market value, Anselm Jappe shows to what extent it remains a salient point for understanding our times.
An essential critique of neoliberalism, Les Aventures de la marchandise defuses pretenses and lies to finally provide an understanding of what fuels this persistent, accepted alienation.
Anselm Jappe is a Marxist theorist and a specialist on Guy Debord. He is the author of Guy Debord (Denoël, 2001) and Crédit à mort (Lignes, 2004).