Two Notions of Reification and Its Successiveness in Recent Capitalism

Georg Lukacs tried to combine Marx's reification and Weber's rationality in Verdinglichung in his History and Class Consciousness (Geschichte und Klassenbewuβtsein) in 1922. On the other hand, Marx described wage as reification of a production relation in his earlier text (1862) of Capital. Reification of production relations is the important notion of Marx's political economy. By exploring reification of production relations in the contemporary capitalism, it can be found that the closer relation between the latest development between wage as a reification of production relation and reification of production relations in the money market