Marxists initially used commodification to challenge capitalism, subsequent scholars used it mainly to criticize certain … distinguishes between formal, real, and fictitious commodification. While capitalism depends on commodity production, the extent of … promoted (re)commodification, including privatization, liberalization, and deregulation. The primacy of profits over needs has …

, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …