This essay analyzes some concepts about 'solidarity economics' based on two principal movements: the transmutation of exchange value into solidarity and the transformation of solidarity into a commodity. The first point relates to the fact that 'solidarity economics' sees the use of capital as an individual choice, promoting a mystifying vision of the current phase of capitalism. From this perspective, individual will is treated as independent of the determinations of capital. Appeals are made to individuals to use their private capital in a solidarity manner and thus expand the project in question. Based on a critical reading of the thesis that these organizations have authentic subjective qualities that represent competitive advantages in relation to capitalist companies, the mystification of the use of solidarity as a competitive distinction is indicated. These positions are considered to be ideological and misleading forms that serve to intensify human alienation.
solidarity economics; ideology; alienation; Marxism; community