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| | Freedom and Fetishism Marshall Berman, 1963 - Adventures in Marxism, publ. Verso, 1999. |
 | | The function of fetishism, and of religion in general, is to relieve the believer of responsibility for his actions. |
 | | Fetishism, then, infuses the youthful exuberance of capitalism with a religious zeal — and a religious naivete; disenchantment comes with a fullness of years, and may slacken the pace, but leaves a new freedom in its wake. |
 | | Men who are animated by “fetishism,” be it religious, political or economic, will charge blindly ahead like locomotives at full speed on a single track; if they collide and destroy each other they can’t help it, there is nothing to be done. |
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