Alleged social process whereby relations between human beings are transformed into impersonal relations between things. The Hungarian thinker Georg Lukács, in History and Class Consciousness 1923, analyzed this process as characteristic of capitalist society. Later Marxists have developed this analysis, thus extending Karl Marx’s early critique of alienation in the Paris Manuscripts 1844.
ČInjenje nečega stvarnim, predmetno ostvarivanje, opredmećivanje, popredmećivanje (lat.)