" The riddle of the money fetish is therefore the riddle of the commodity fetish, now become visible and dazzling to our eyes” (187). But there is one other vital point to this chapter. With the “magic” and “fetish” of money firmly in place, men are henceforth related to each other in their social process of production in a purely atomistic way. Their own relations of production therefore assume a material shape which is independent of their control and their conscious individual action. "

― David Harvey , A Companion to Marx's Capital