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"The socialist revolution suppresses fetishism, and the condition of communism to which it leads may be described as the conquest of form by matter. For in negating exchange-value communism releases the content fetishized economy imprisoned in form. It subjects the social to the individual, thus exactly reversing fetishism."

"By inviting focus on the material process occurring within the capitalist economic form, it discredits capital’s pretension to being an irreplaceable means of creating material wealth. Confusion of content and form supports the reactionary illusion that physical production and material growth can be achieved only by capitalist investment."