@thirdform Interesting, that really helps re: fetish.
But seeing as there are different agendas contending to naturalize certain values/valuations, certain artificial value frameworks win out over others, no? If even by brute force?
re: post-capitalism, I admit I don't know what it'll look like, but my point was that perhaps a useful strain of marxism would consist of midwiving the current pregnant system, so to speak, searching through its field of possible outcomes, spaces of possibility etc.
And if capital doesn't have an exterior, what options are we left with, aside from learning its language and trying to channel it towards a preferred outcome? Some kind of complex systems-of-systems sorcery.
And I haven't read Capital, so for all I know I'm stuck behind one of the points already handled there.