Alienação, reificação e fetichismo da mercadoria

This paper analyzes the categories of alienation and reification based on Karl Marx’s reflections on the fetischism of ware and abstract work. It resumes the reception of these categories by some Marxists thinkers of 20th. Century and shows that these were prisoners of an ontology of work, which hinders them to comprehend that the critic of those categories supposes the critic of the role played by work and value in capitalism. This comprehension, that can be found in Marx’s critic of political economy of Marx, became evident during the crisis of the work society particularly since 1970 and composes the core of theoretical approaches of the authors around the “value’s critics” (Wertkritik) such as Robert Kurz, Moishe Postone und the author of this article.