After introducing the "value-form," it calls the tendency for social relations to be transmuted into economic relations "commodity fetishism."
A discursion on this work's concept of the "ideal average" appears in a collection of essays from a seminar on this book led by Étienne Balibar and Louis Althusser. This book traces the shift from a form of circulation denoted C-M-C to M-C-M, and it argues that increases in the organic composition of the title concept cause the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. This book argues that the (*) exchange value of an object is tied to the socially necessary labor time needed to produce it. After introducing the "value-form," it calls the tendency for social relations to be transmuted into economic relations "commodity fetishism." Because its author died before the completion of its second and third volumes, they were prepared by Friedrich Engels. For 10 points, name this analysis of the political economy of the title concept by Karl Marx.
A discursion on this work's concept of the "ideal average" appears in a collection of essays from a seminar on this book led by Étienne Balibar and Louis Althusser.
Das Kapital [or Capital]