The philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre coined the notion of "production of space" in 1974, breaking with the vision of space as a container or scenario of objects and social relations, to move towards space understood as a process. From this vision based on the Marxist tradition, space is a product and a producer of social relations and processes.
Lefebvre's great contribution leads us to reflect on what Marx called Commodity Fetishism: reducing the production and exchange of commodities to relations between things [money and merchandise], concealing the social relations implicit in the processes of production and exchange. Fetishism allows us to cover up the exploitation of workers because, through the merchandise itself, we are not able to know the working conditions of the people involved in the production processes. Thus Lefebvre proposed approaching the study and analysis of space, as Marx approached the study of merchandise:
