A MAIS INSANA MISTIFICAÇÃO CAPITALISTA: SOBRE A RELAÇÃO ENTRE FETICHISMO E CAPITAL FICTÍCIO
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2022-12-16
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Fraguas, Bernardo Gois
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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The present study analyzes the relationship between fetishism and the category of fictitious capital within the work book Capital, by Karl Marx, including three books that composed it. In this context, Marx, in this work, exposes the most fundamental determinations that define determined social formation as capitalist. But beyond that, Marx also seeks to demonstrate and explain the process in which these determinations appear in a mystified way in the immediacy of phenomena. Thus, what explains this mystification is exactly the phenomenon of fetishism, presented by Marx right at the beginning of his work. Fetishism, therefore, permeates the entire exposition made throughout the three books of Capital and becomes the fundament of the process of autonomization of the functional forms of capital. In this process, we start with capital in general and, as fetishism progresses, there is the emergence of forms derived from money capital. Thus, first there is interest-bearing capital and then, with another step forward in the process of autonomizing forms, fictitious capital. At first, Marx considers interest-bearing capital as the paroxysm of fetishism, however, such a statement raises the question of how fictitious capital, as a form derived from interest-bearing capital, would then relate to the fetishism. For this, it is necessary to analyze how the transition from interest-bearing capital to fictitious capital takes place. In this process, it will be possible to verify that the fictitious capital is constituted in pure form without content. Therefore, while interest-bearing capital still presents a duality between its expression in totality – which includes the content – and its fetishistic expression – its form of manifestation –, fictitious capital, in turn, is pure fetishistic expression as a form without content. Fictitious capital is thus the ultimate expression of the fetishism of interest-bearing capital itself. And is this fetishism that explains the passage from interest-bearing capital to fictitious capital. Thus, fictitious capital is the most insane form of mystification of capitalist society.
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Capital , Fetichismo , Capital Fictício