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A Critique of Political Economy of Signs and Ideology——Reading Baudrillard's For a Critique of Political Economy of Signs

Yibing Zhang

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Baudrillard puts forward that the essence of today's commodity production is the production of symbolic value because the contemporary capitalism has stridden into the epoch ofPolitical Economy of Signs.The commodity at present is not realized any more through a single form(economicalexchange valueor cultural characteristic).It is a compound,in which use value,exchange valueand symbolic value are centralized in a complicated pattern,which describes the most common form of political economy

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Key concepts: Commodity, Capitalism, Use value, Value (mathematics), Exchange value, Ideology, Reading (process), Economics