Strictly speaking, one would then no longer have a concept of the totality, i.e., the mediated totality is conceptually dissociated into "economics" and "politics", which cannot be recognized (at least in a coherent form) as functional spheres derived from something identical and superior; or, even the concept itself of the totality is distorted in the political sense ("capitalism" as a false concept of subjectively-understood "power"). Ironically, the usual leftist "critique of economism" itself argues in "economistic" terms, each time that it simply attributes the commodity form to the visible functional sphere of the "economy", instead of recognizing it as the form of the totality which also contains the sphere of "politics". The opposition between "economics" and "politics" can, then, no longer be understood as the conflict inherent to the commodity form and to its fetishistic constitution, which results from the problem of its self-mediation, but only as an external and unmediated opposition, which opens the door (again, as usual) to the hypostatization of politics by the left. The real secret of this hypostatization is the total incapability of all the traditional forms of the "left" to manage to even approach the problem of superseding the commodity form. At its root, the "critique of economism" was always a flight from this problem; thus it quickly jumped towards "politics". Instead of the overcoming of the commodity form, which was never even considered, all kinds of variants of "political" regulation arose, which were to exercise political control over the commodity form, ontologized and