Digital Fetishism and the Reproduction of Exploitation: A Marxist Critique of Platform Capitalism

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Brief Overview

This paper reconstructs Marx's reification theory to analyze digital labor. It proposes a triple alienation framework—technological, institutional, and ideological—to reveal how platform capitalism masks exploitation through "digital fetishism".

Author

• Zihao Shen, University of New South Wales