What did Marx mean by the “spectral objectivity of value”? Why did he mention the Victorian spiritual practice of summoning spirits into tables in the first paragraph of his famous chapter “On the fetishism of commodities”? And what has Michael Faraday, discoverer of the electromagnetic field, got to do with all this?

This talk, which I presented at the Communist University 2023, is a Victorian ghost story that unveils the hidden spirit that haunts commodities.

Marx, Faraday and the Spectral Objectivity of Value (CU 2023 talk)

Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Economic History, Economics, Finance, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Socialist Finance