For Marx the commodity structures people’s actions, worldviews, and dispositions

Evidence

As Postone (“Rethinking Marx,” 7) put it more precisely, the commodity for Marx is a “structured form of social practice that is a structuring principle of the actions, worldviews, and dispositions of people.” — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 782

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides the precise Postonian definition of commodity used to ground the data-colonialism critique — the commodity as a structuring principle of social practice.
• XREF: connects to: Marx’s organic composition of capital extends to the organic composition of individuals — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2313; Heidegger’s phenomenology reflects the commodity-structure of modern society — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 582; Under capitalism the Aristotelian four causes must be refracted through class and commodity structure — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 752 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx derives superstructures from the phenomenal forms of exchange relations #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 520
• Capitalism and materialism shape a society’s entire worldview and value system #corroborates (0.82)
• Marx decentered identity by lodging subjects inside un-chosen historical practices #expands (0.80)