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Originally Posted by tooblue
You do realize the doughnut is a metaphor so I suppose that makes the metaphor a fetishized commodity.
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For a Marxist, typically a doughnut is something that starts as grain on a field owned by AMD or someone, as lard from pigs on a corporate farm, as butter from a dairy conglomerate. It mysteriously travels through the cirucits of capitalism to eventually be mass produced by machines and alienated workers, and is eventually repurchased with a magic elf on the shiny wrapper by the lower classes because they don't own the fields or production equipment in the first place. The hole is produced and consumed simultaneously.
In other words, donughts and their holes are material commodities that circulate and are produced according to the dictates of capital.
I'd suggest that you go with "bagel," but Marx made a few comments that aren't flattering of Jewish people and things would only get worse for you.