↑ Marx, Karl (1887). Capital Volume One. Moscow: Progress Publishers. A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men’s labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour; because the relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labour is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labour.
↑ Isaak Illich Rubin said that "The theory of fetishism is, per se, the basis of Marx's entire economic system, and, in particular, of his theory of value." — Essays on Marx's Theory of Value. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1990, tr. 5.
↑ Roubine, Isaak I. (2009). Essais sur la théorie de la valeur de Marx. Paris: Syllepse. tr. 55. ISBN978-2-84950-218-1.
