The prehistory of humanity is coming to an end, and fetishism looks ridiculous. In the world of societies with fetishism, new societies emerged without commodity and social fetishism. The spirit of capitalism acts as a spirit of fetishism: it is under capitalism that the mechanisms of the embodiment of social relations, the autonomy of things, and finally, the fusion of the social existence of a thing with its material nature operate. Typically, these processes are described as if they were automatic in any society, without the participation of actors. It is simply postulated that things live a double life, and from this it seems that capital is a property of production, and value is the natural quality of things. In the product, the hoax is still very simple. But the mystery of the money fetish, when all relations of bourgeois society are «gilded or silvered», becomes insoluble in the understanding of more complex industrial relations. In the eyes of the working capital has an independent existence, independent of labor. The salary of the worker is represented in the form of the price of work, and cost - some independent and independent substance from work. Hence another fundamental illusion of agents of capitalist production about the origin of profits from circulation and about the capital that brings interest. Not every fetishization is commodity in nature and this circumstance necessitates the development of the Marx theory of fetishism and its application to the study of modern society in connection with the theory of social progress, class relations, civil society.