# Commodity In the ECSA discourse, commodity includes all output produced for and recognized by a [Network](/network.md). This is not Marx’s use of the term, which associates commodities with capitalist production relations. There, commodity production has two dimensions: it is extractive, in the sense that commodities are produced by the workers and owned by the capitalist, and produced to be sold for a profit. This latter emphasis gives rise to the term “commodification”, meaning more and more facets of social life turned into marketable opportunities for extraction. Our use of the term ‘commodity’ is more like Straffa (1960) in his book *Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities*. There, commodities are all produced outputs. They are produced for a market, but they are not exchanged for money. This gives space for our proposition that commodities can be produced for the [Commons](/commons.md) (without a price). Similarly, there can be no suggestion that our use of the term commodity is subject to a ‘fetishism’ of commodities, developed by Marx at the end Chapter 1 of Volume I of Capital, for this term too, is capitalist-specific. In many analyses, the political response to fetishism is to take goods and services out of market relations. Our proposal is to change the nature of markets. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/commodity.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.