2006-09-08 - 1:42 a.m.
The act (or result of the act) of transforming human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man‑produced things which have become independent (and which are imagined as originally independent) of man and govern his life. Also transformation of human beings into thing‑like beings which do not behave in a human way but according to the laws of the thing‑world. Reification is a �special� case of ALIENATION, its most radical and widespread form characteristic of modem capitalist society.
