A Natural Law of Social Evolution

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESIS: The Self-Degeneration of Competitive, Representative-Democratic

Capitalism into Plutocratic, Totalitarian, Globally Multi-Genocidal State

Capitalism -- or 'Government Capitalism' -- is a "Law Of Nature".

In the ascendant phase of the capitalist system, this degeneration is seeded by

aperiodic political-economic "crises", arising mostly "behind the backs" of its

producers, as a result of the course of the relation between "Money Capital and

Real Capital", and Falling Profit-Rate / 'Techno-Depreciation' processes that go

on in the "core depths" of that system, mostly unobserved at "the surface of

[that] society".

In the later, decadent phase of the capitalist system, attendant upon the vast

consolidation, centralization, and concentration of capital ownership, of money,

and therefore of ruling class political power, that is concomitant to that phase, the

"political-economic crises" are increasingly manipulated, orchestrated, and

outright contrived by the ruling faction of the capitalist plutocracy, so as to

destroy the power of rivals, and to further concentrate socio-politico-economic

power in their hands alone, and so as to preclude the otherwise likely emergence

of a global middle-working-class-led Civilizational Scientific/Technological/Spiritual

Global Renaissance, overthrowing the ruling power of the Plutocracy.

This whole development is no less "Nature-al" than any other development in

Nature -- as Marx pointed out in his Preface to <<Das Kapital>>.

We often fail to think of human-social development as something that falls under

the "Laws of Nature" such as our science struggles to discern.

However, if we simply realize that humanity is a further -- and very "Nature-al"

-- self-development of pre-human Nature; that humanity is not some kind of

"intruder from outside of the universe", then we can begin to realize that there

must be "laws", or self-[re-]enforcing patterns, of human-social

self-development, just as there are "laws" of the self-development of other,

and prior, portions of Nature's spatio-temporality.

Products of human skill emerge from the initial appropriation of the "Mere",

"unimproved, "raw" products of Nature, by 'predationist', tool-making

"hunter-gatherer-scavenger", but "handy", proto-human[oids], who, as such,

develop the thumb-vs.-finger 'opposability', and the 'neuro-sociality', to actualize

this opportunity.

"Mere" Products, produced with growing human productivity, hence in local

surfeit, give rise to inter-tribal barter as an alternate to otherwise incessant

inter-tribal warfare, i.e., to the emergence of the 'trade-able' "Commodity",

the "exchange-value", from out of the mere [human] "Product", with its initially

'exchange-value-less' added "use-value" above that of the "raw appropriation"

of Nature's products by humans.

"Mere" Barter, as that practice grows with further growth of human productivity,

gives rise to Money, and the Money-mediated circulation of "Commodities",

accompanied by the subordination of Commodity to Money.

"Mere" Money circulation, as that practice grows, with further growth of human

productivity, gives rise to "Capital", i.e., to the 'auto-catalytic form of

exchange-value' -- to "Money which Makes [More] Money", and to the subordination

of "Mere" Money to Capital-Money -- first in the form of Merchant's Capital

[transporting Commodities, and selling them for more money than that for which

they were purchased].

Much later, Mercantile Capital gives rise to Industrial Capital [PRODUCING

Commodities whose Value is greater than the sum of the Values of their

ingredients].

Competition among industrial Capitals initially provides an economic

check-and-balance against over-pricing, under-quality, and other abuse of

consumers by industrial-capitalist producers.

It also tends to distribute money-based power and influence among many different

centers of industrial-capital power -- many separate, individual industrial

capitals -- so that representative democracy, and, with it, the political checks

and balances among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of the

state can function, militating against complete dictatorship by any faction of

the capital-ownership-based plutocracy.

Competition among individual industrial capitals leads to SUCCESSFUL

competition, which leads to the failure/disappearance of the losing capitals,

and, often, to their being swallowed up into the winning capitals, which grow in

scale, leading to the consolidation, centralization, and concentration of

industrial capital ownership.

The concentration of money resources that accompanies the concentration of

capital ownership means that, increasingly, the most concentrated faction of

capital ownership -- tendentially located in the energy [e.g., especially, the

petroleum] and the banking [commercial lending / finance / joint-stock market

securities] "industries" -- can increasingly buy -- prostitute -- all three

branches of political government, thus also increasingly obviating and

subverting the political checks and balances that used to function, to a degree,

among the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary branches.

This situation creates the FORMAL potential for a [self-]degeneration of the

formerly more competitive capitalist, representative-democratic political-economy,

into a police-state dictatorship, with a state-capitalist political-economy,

ruled by a plutocracy which "owns" the state, but this potential does not, by

itself, explain why that potential, given all of the risks it also poses even

for the oil-finance plutocracy itself, tends to be actualized -- as we see

happening right now, before our very eyes, especially in the U.S., and the U.K.

-- toward a nightmarish, multi-genocidal, Orwellian Hell-On-Earth.

Note that the totalitarian police states of Great-Depression/WWII Italy

[Mussolini's "Fascism"], of Great-Depression/WWII Germany [Hitler's "Nazi-ism",

or "National Socialism"], of Great-Depression/WWII Russia [stalin's "Communism",

or "Socialism in one Nation"], as of Great-Depression/WWII Japan, Spain, Portugal,

Argentina, Hungary, etc., as well as that of Post-WWII China [Mao's "Communism"]

all represent PREMATURELY-MANIFESTED "species" of the same "Genos":

totalitarian, multi-genocidal STATE-CAPITALISM.

We are often told that "Communism" and "Fascism" are "diametric opposites".

They are opposite "species", but only within the same "Genos" of

STATE-CAPITALISM.

And STATE-CAPITALISM, per this HYPOTHESIS, is the predestined fate of

Capitalism; it is the terminal state that is built into capitalism's

['Phenomic'] "DNA" from the very beginning.

Great Depression/WWII+ "Fascism", Communism", and the rest were just early

warnings of the horrific destiny which, full-blown, is destined to manifest

first, and worst, at the very core of the capitalist system -- in the U.S., the

U.K., and in Western Europe.

It hasn't manifested there, full-blown, yet, but it has begun to be happening

before our very -- usually unseeing -- eyes, right now, especially, and at an

accelerating pace, during and since Bush 2, and 'Bush 3' [ = "Obama 1" ].

Why then, is the mere formal potential for totalitarian dictatorship "lawfully"

carried forward into horrific actualization?

And why is that 'totalitarianization' "lawfully" accompanied by global

multi-genocide?

More subtle discernment, requiring lengthier exposition, and evidence-citation,

is needed to account for this aspect of this "Law Of Nature".

For more on those crucial further stages of the argument of this Hypothesis, see

the essay entitled

"The Political-Economic Law of Motion of Modern, Capital-based Society" at

Global-Samizdat "dot org".

For a potential way out, to a preservation AND 'EXTENTION' of "mere" Political

Democracy into 'Political-ECONOMIC Democracy', see the essay entitled

"Political-Economic Democracy" at Global-Samizdat "dot org" website.

-- and the text of the proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at the

Equitism "dot org" website.

For a fuller, but deeper rendition of the whole story, see the essay entitled

"Malady and Remedy", also at the Equitism "dot org" website, and the essay

entitled "Global Strategic Hypotheses" at Global-Samizdat "dot org" website.

For the alternative to our presently-emerging New / Final Dark Age: Global

Renaissance; a HUMAN[e] Future,

Regards,

Miguel

[Roughneck]

I wonder what the intellectuals predicted for social evolution during the Feudal ages.

Personally, I think like all ages before it, the age of globalized consumerism will give way to another, in time- not be the harbinger of social death and rebirth.

[MiguelD]

Here are the direct links to the texts referenced in the original message [be sure to copy and paste-in the full URLs as given below] --

HYPOTHESIS: The Self-Degeneration of Competitive, Representative-Democratic

Capitalism into Plutocratic, Totalitarian, Globally Multi-Genocidal State

Capitalism -- or 'Government Capitalism' -- is a "Law Of Nature".

For more on those crucial further stages of the argument of this Hypothesis, see

the essay entitled "The Political-Economic Law of Motion of Modern, Capital-based Society" at

Global-Samizdat "dot org" --

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS2-PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/GS2-PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm

For a potential way out, to a preservation AND 'EXTENTION' of "mere" Political Democracy into 'Political-ECONOMIC Democracy', see the essay entitled "Political-Economic Democracy" at Global-Samizdat "dot org" website --

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS6-PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/GS6-PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

-- and the text of the proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at the Equitism "dot org" website --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.htm

For a fuller, but deeper rendition of the whole story, see the essay entitled "Malady and Remedy", also at the Equitism "dot org" website --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/MaladyAndRemedy/MaladyAndRemedy.htm

-- and the essay entitled "Global Strategic Hypotheses" at Global-Samizdat "dot org" website --

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS1-TowardsAStrategyForHumanity/GS1-TowardsAStrategyForHumanity.htm

For the alternative to our presently-emerging New / Final Dark Age, namley:

Global Renaissance; a HUMAN[e] Future,

Regards,

Miguel

[TRUEYOUTRUEME]

Interesting enough post but it is not the capitalist that is forming itself as a ruling class today. It is the fascist that is.

Capitalism is a term for freedom in society in regards to the market exchange of goods, services and ideas. It is the individual freedom in regards to ownership and profit of ones ideas and work.

Socialism is a term for complete government rule in regards to the market and the ownership, exchange of goods and services, and rule of all profit by a ruling governmental class.

Both ideals (socialism and capitalism) have been in conflict for all of modern history.

Two polar forces at different ends of an ideal.

Fascism was the third way. Fascism saw this conflict and decided to use it for it's benefit. It claimed that either method (socialism or capitalism) could be used as the structure as long as it met one condition.

Every thing must be for the state. If an individual profited from the state agenda through capitalist means then so be it as long as that individual conformed to the state agenda. If individuals in the market would not conform then using socialism was the best method. Government control. But there was no need to force socialism where a capitalist was serving the state agenda.

The main purpose of the fascist is to take over the market and to bring more and more aspects of it into service of the state.

This is what we are seeing in America today. The democrat party are masters of fascism. They continually play that socialism or capitalism is not what matters as long as you are willing to follow their agenda.

No area of private life is off limits to their expansion of government power from the weather, to our sex lives, to when life begins, to or health care, etc... Everything needs to be controlled by them.

I though do not call this left-wing progressive movement a natural movement but instead call it a CORRUPTIVE movement. This is not a natural law of social evolution but is instead the decay of individual liberty and freedom.

Edited December 8, 2009 by TRUEYOUTRUEME

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

IN THE SELF-DEGENERATING PHASE OF CAPITALISM, MEDICINE IS PERVERTED FROM A MEANS OF HEALING INTO A MEANS OF 'STEALTH GENOCIDE'

BACKGROUND. The fundamental motive to 'multi-genocide' in late, self-degenerating capitalism, arises from (1) the concentration of capital ownership in ever fewer hands, coupled with (2) the growing technological composition of advance industrial capital, which is expressed in the growing proportion of the total capital-value of the most ownership-concentrated industrial capital that takes the form of "fixed capital", high-technology plant and equipment, an with (3) the incentive to increase profitability/reduce product prices vis-a-vis those of competitors via productivity growth / reduction of unit product costs by means of an accelerating further advance in the technological composition of fixed capital.

Thus, the VULNERABILITY of the fixed capital owned by the most ownership-concentrated sectors of capital, whose profitability provides the economic basis of the socio-political power, and thereby, of the "perks", of those owners of that concentrated capital, to TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE DEPRECIATION -- or 'Techno-Depreciation', for short -- grows at an accelerating rate in late capitalism.

The most telling example of the kind of 'TECHNO-DEPRECIATION" that terrifies ruling strata of concentrated fixed-capital ownership, is that of the advent of "water-burning" FUSION atomic/sub-atomic POWER, which would rapidly 'techno-depreciate', to near-zero, the accumulated fixed capital value of the MOLECULAR-POWER industry, e.g., especially, of the PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, the predictable locus of the major foundation of the power of the ruling plutocracy in late capitalism.

These owners thus organize to block the further advance of science and technology, and of global social productivity, via really-socially-productive industrial technology -- outside of their "closely-held" enclaves of military R&D, where the societal-productive forces of humanity are perverted into societal-destructive forces: into forces of ever-more-massive mass social destruction and mass murder.

As these ruling strata are obliged to block further advances in real social productivity, they have no alternative but to implement a global program for Neo-Malthusian "Population Reduction", since, otherwise, populations of ever more impoverished people would accumulate all over the globe, threatening an ever more massive basis for a popular global revolt that would overthrow the ever-more brutal and vicious power of the global plutocracy.

The global plutocracy cannot immediately risk any attempt by themselves, together with their immediate servants, the 'drooling greedies', to globally impose their absolute rule via global totalitarianism -- and, thereby, to impose a DIRECT and rapid global 'multi-genocide' -- overnight.

Initially, they must content themselves with their perversion of capitalist representative "DEMOCRACY", in the centers of the most advanced capital accumulation, into 'WHORE-OCRACY', such as we have already seen in the U.S. and in the E.U., for example.

The forms of "Stealth Genocide" that the Capital-Ownership Concentrations can get away with, even long before they achieve full totalitarian control, are "myriad".

One of this "myriad" is documented in the sequel.

THE CASE IN POINT. Most analyses of the causation of these 'Stealth Genocides' -- of how they are allowed to occur -- don't get beyond an analysis of the activities lower, servant levels of the ruling stratum who might, analytically, be termed the 'drooling greedies'.

It is true that the "highest" levels of the ruling stratum must rule via their lower, servant, strata -- via the 'drooling greedies' -- so that the highest strata must continually "throw their dogs a bone", by assuaging the drooling greedies' greed.

But such analyses miss the point that the "higher" ruling strata have a different agenda -- have direct motives for such 'Stealth Genocide', apart from its mere monetary profitablility.

The core plutocracy is concerned with how their programs of 'Stealth Genocide' serve their agenda of preserving their socio-political power, and its "perks", against the risk of the total 'techno-depreciation' of the foundations of their power, and therefore of their "perks" -- a risk that is immanent, inherent, in later Capitalism.

Consider, for example, the "Health System" of the United States, the core bastion of the core plutocracy --

"MEDICALLY CAUSED DEATH IN AMERICA

By Jon Rappoport

On July 26, 2000, the US medical community received a titanic shock to the system, when one of its most respected and honored public-health experts, Dr. Barbara Starfield, revealed her findings on healthcare in America.

The landmark Starfield study, “Is US health really the best in the world?”, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, came to the following conclusions:

Every year in the US there are:

* 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;

* 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;

* 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;

* 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;

* 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.

This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.

The Starfield study is the most explosive revelation about modern healthcare in America ever published. The credentials of its author and the journal in which it appeared are, within the highest medical circles, impeccable.

Yet, on the heels of Starfield’s astonishing findings, although media reporting was extensive, it soon dwindled. No major newspaper or television network mounted an ongoing “Medicalgate” investigation. Neither the US Department of Justice nor federal health agencies undertook prolonged remedial action.

All in all, it seemed that those parties who could have taken effective steps to correct this mind-boggling situation preferred to ignore it.

On December 6-7, 2009, I interviewed Dr. Starfield by email.

"What has been the level and tenor of the response to your findings, since 2000?

My papers on the benefits of primary care have been widely used, including in Congressional testimony and reports. However, the findings on the relatively poor health in the US have received almost no attention. The American public appears to have been hoodwinked into believing that more interventions lead to better health, and most people that I meet are completely unaware that the US does not have the ‘best health in the world’.

In the medical research community, have your medically-caused mortality statistics been debated, or have these figures been accepted, albeit with some degree of shame?

The findings have been accepted by those who study them. There has been only one detractor, a former medical school dean, who has received a lot of attention for claiming that the US health system is the best there is and we need more of it. He has a vested interest in medical schools and teaching hospitals (they are his constituency). They, of course, would like an even greater share of the pie than they now have, for training more specialists. (Of course, the problem is that we train specialists—at great public cost—who then do not practice up to their training—they spend half of their time doing work that should be done in primary care and don’t do it as well.)

Have health agencies of the federal government consulted with you on ways to mitigate the effects of the US medical system?

NO.

Since the FDA approves every medical drug given to the American people, and certifies it as safe and effective, how can that agency remain calm about the fact that these medicines are causing 106,000 deaths per year?

Even though there will always be adverse events that cannot be anticipated, the fact is that more and more unsafe drugs are being approved for use. Many people attribute that to the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is (for the past ten years or so) required to pay the FDA for reviews—which puts the FDA into a untenable position of working for the industry it is regulating. There is a large literature on this.

Aren’t your 2000 findings a severe indictment of the FDA and its standard practices?

They are an indictment of the US health care industry: insurance companies, specialty and disease-oriented medical academia, the pharmaceutical and device manufacturing industries, all of which contribute heavily to re-election campaigns of members of Congress. The problem is that we do not have a government that is free of influence of vested interests. Alas, [it] is a general problem of our society—which clearly unbalances democracy.

Can you offer an opinion about how the FDA can be so mortally wrong about so many drugs?

Yes, it cannot divest itself from vested interests. (Again, [there is] a large literature about this, mostly unrecognized by the people because the industry-supported media give it no attention.

Would it be correct to say that, when your JAMA study was published in 2000, it caused a momentary stir and was thereafter ignored by the medical community and by pharmaceutical companies?

Are you sure it was a momentary stir? I still get at least one email a day asking for a reprint—ten years later! The problem is that its message is obscured by those that do not want any change in the US health care system.

Do medical schools in the US, and intern/residency programs in hospitals, offer significant “primary care” physician training and education?

NO. Some of the most prestigious medical teaching institutions do not even have family physician training programs [or] family medicine departments. The federal support for teaching institutions greatly favors specialist residencies, because it is calculated on the basis of hospital beds. [Dr. Starfield has done extensive research showing that family doctors, who deliver primary care—as opposed to armies of specialists—produce better outcomes for patients.]

Are you aware of any systematic efforts, since your 2000 JAMA study was published, to remedy the main categories of medically caused deaths in the US?

No systematic efforts; however, there have been a lot of studies. Most of them indicate higher rates [of death] than I calculated.

What was your personal reaction when you reached the conclusion that the US medical system was the third leading cause of death in the US?

I had previously done studies on international comparisons and knew that there were serious deficits in the US health care system, most notably in lack of universal coverage and a very poor primary care infrastructure. So I wasn’t surprised.

Has anyone from the FDA, since 2000, contacted you about the statistical findings in your JAMA paper?

NO. Please remember that the problem is not only that some drugs are dangerous but that many drugs are overused or inappropriately used. The US public does not seem to recognize that inappropriate care is dangerous—more does not mean better. The problem is NOT mainly with the FDA but with population expectations.

… Some drugs are downright dangerous; they may be prescribed according to regulations but they are dangerous.

Concerning the national health plan before Congress—if the bill is passed, and it is business as usual after that, and medical care continues to be delivered in the same fashion, isn’t it logical to assume that the 225,000 deaths per year will rise?

Probably—but the balance is not clear. Certainly, those who are not insured now and will get help with financing will probably be marginally better off overall.

Did your 2000 JAMA study sail through peer review, or was there some opposition to publishing it?

It was rejected by the first journal that I sent it to, on the grounds that ‘it would not be interesting to readers’!

Do the 106,000 deaths from medical drugs only involve drugs prescribed to patients in hospitals, or does this statistic also cover people prescribed drugs who are not in-patients in hospitals?

I tried to include everything in my estimates. Since the commentary was written, many more dangerous drugs have been added to the marketplace.

106,000 people die as a result of CORRECTLY prescribed medicines. I believe that was your point in your 2000 study. Overuse of a drug or inappropriate use of a drug would not fall under the category of “correctly prescribed.” Therefore, people who die after “overuse” or “inappropriate use” would be IN ADDITION TO the 106,000 and would fall into another or other categories.

‘Appropriate’ means that it is not counter to regulations. That does not mean that the drugs do not have adverse effects."

Some comments from the interviewer:

I’m aware there are reports, outside the mainstream, which conclude far more than 225,000 people in the US die every year as a result of medical treatment. For example, see the work of Carolyn Dean, Trueman Tuck, Gary Null, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio, Dorothy Smith.

This interview with Dr. Starfield reveals that, even when an author has unassailable credentials within the medical-research establishment, the findings can result in no changes made to the system.

Yes, many persons and organizations within the medical system contribute to the annual death totals of patients, and media silence and public ignorance are certainly major factors, but the FDA is the assigned gatekeeper, when it comes to the safety of medical drugs. The buck stops there. If those drugs the FDA is certifying as safe are killing, like clockwork, 106,000 people a year, the Agency must be held accountable. The American people must understand that.

As for the other 119,000 people killed every year as a result of hospital treatment, this horror has to be laid at the doors of those institutions. Further, to the degree that hospitals are regulated and financed by state and federal governments, the relevant health agencies assume culpability.

It is astounding, as well, that the US Department of Justice has failed to weigh in on Starfield’s findings. If 225,000 medically caused deaths per year is not a crime by the Dept. of Justice’s standards, then what is?

To my knowledge, not one person in America has been fired from a job or even censured as result of these medically caused deaths.

Dr. Starfield’s findings have been available for nine years. She has changed the perception of the medical landscape forever. In a half-sane nation, she would be accorded a degree of recognition that would, by comparison, make the considerable list of her awards pale. And significant and swift action would have been taken to punish the perpetrators of these crimes and reform the system from its foundations.

In these times, medical schools continue turning out a preponderance of specialists who then devote themselves to promoting the complexities of human illness and massive drug treatment. Whatever the shortcomings of family doctors, their tradition speaks to less treatment, more common sense, and a proper reliance on the immune systems of patients.

The pharmaceutical giants stand back and carve up the populace into “promising markets.” They seek new disease labels and new profits from more and more toxic drugs. They do whatever they can—legally or illegally—to influence doctors in their prescribing habits. Some drug studies which show negative results are buried. FDA panels are filled with doctors who have drug-company ties. Legislators are incessantly lobbied and supported with pharma campaign monies.

Nutrition, the cornerstone of good health, is ignored or devalued by most physicians. Meanwhile, the FDA continues to attack nutritional supplements, even though the overall safety record of these nutrients is good, whereas, once again, the medical drugs the FDA certifies as safe are killing 106,000 Americans per year.

Physicians are trained to pay exclusive homage to peer-reviewed published drug studies. These doctors unfailingly ignore the fact that, if medical drugs are killing a million Americans per decade, the studies on which those drugs are based must be fraudulent or, at the very least, massively incompetent. In other words, the whole literature is suspect, unreliable, and impenetrable.

At the same time, without evidence, doctors off-handedly tout their work with great confidence. Some years ago, a resident at a major New York hospital harangued me about the primacy of controlled studies. She boasted, in passing, that the hospital’s heart-bypass surgery team was considered the best in the city, and one of the best in the country. I asked her for a reference. Was her statement a combination of folk-wisdom and rumor, or was there a proper study that confirmed her opinion? A bit chagrined, she admitted it was hearsay. I was sure she would repeat her tune, however, many times.

Claiming evidence where there is none, and denying the evidence that the medical system does great harm, are apparently part of the weave of the modern Hippocratic Oath."

JON RAPPOPORT

[emphasis added by M. D.]

For more information on the dynamics of 'Techno-Depreciation', immanent in Late / Self-Degenerating Capitalism, as the core cause of Capitalism's Self-Degeneration, see the following --

http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/bin/642fulltext.pdf

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS2-PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/GS2-PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/MaladyAndRemedy/MaladyAndRemedy.htm

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partA.pdf

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partB.pdf

Regards,

Miguel

[pbarosso]

^o^ ....somebody hates america....and has a propaganda agenda.

***TRUEYOUTRUEME****you hit the nail on the head with classic, free, and best of all free information.

[MasterAdam]

^o^ ....somebody hates america....and has a propaganda agenda.

***TRUEYOUTRUEME****you hit the nail on the head with classic, free, and best of all free information.

Are you saying that the OP hates America? That's just a cheap shot. The OP has made it clear that Capitalism is not the way to go. He never said he hated Democracy.

[SlimJim22]

Are you saying that the OP hates America? That's just a cheap shot. The OP has made it clear that Capitalism is not the way to go. He never said he hated Democracy.

Capitalism and communsism supposedly opposite ends of the scale freedom - Control. The biggest criticism of Communism was cited as corruption. If Capitalism is proved to be shown as just as corrupt then what is holding it up. Reform is a scary word cos the multinational don't wanna lose what they got or pay for what they don't need. Is it coincidence that the pharmaceuticals industry has most to gain from the War in Afghanistan and any swine flu outbreaks or fear of?

[acidhead]

Are you saying that the OP hates America? That's just a cheap shot. The OP has made it clear that Capitalism is not the way to go. He never said he hated Democracy.

The OP's post doesn't say 'Capitalism is not the way to go'... re-read the OP's post again.

The concentration of money resources that accompanies the concentration of

capital ownership means that, increasingly, the most concentrated faction of

capital ownership -- tendentially located in the energy [e.g., especially, the

petroleum] and the banking [commercial lending / finance / joint-stock market

securities] "industries" -- can increasingly buy -- prostitute -- all three

branches of political government, thus also increasingly obviating and

subverting the political checks and balances that used to function, to a degree,

among the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary branches.

The OP's breakdown points out the failure of the the people to hold the oligarchy of banking, commodity and industrial corporations to the fire.

The people who elected corporate-motivated politicians to the forefront of domestic and foreign policies.

TRUEYOUTRUEME pointed out the glaring fact behind the failure.

...'do not call this left-wing progressive movement a natural movement but instead call it a CORRUPTIVE movement. This is not a natural law of social evolution but is instead the decay of individual liberty and freedom.'

Edited January 4, 2010 by acidhead

[DieChecker]

Is this really a World Politics thread? Sounds like a Conspiricy Theory thread to me. Isn't legitimate stories and theories to be discussed here?

I guess this is a Theory, or at least an Opinion, but come on....

I think as long as there will be humans, there will be Capitalism. One person is always going to be trying to get more resources then another. We can not help it. It is the way humans are wired.

Total Communism has been shown to be a complete failure at any level other then at the most local/neighborhood/village/commune level.

So given individual ownership versus group ownership, I would have to say that individual ownership will be the one that "wins".

[preacherman76]

Is this really a World Politics thread? Sounds like a Conspiricy Theory thread to me. Isn't legitimate stories and theories to be discussed here?

I guess this is a Theory, or at least an Opinion, but come on....

I think as long as there will be humans, there will be Capitalism. One person is always going to be trying to get more resources then another. We can not help it. It is the way humans are wired.

Total Communism has been shown to be a complete failure at any level other then at the most local/neighborhood/village/commune level.

So given individual ownership versus group ownership, I would have to say that individual ownership will be the one that "wins".

Sorry Die, but things a year or 2 ago that could be called conspiracy, are openly and evidently very true today. Its just a matter of looking at the reality around you.

[SlimJim22]

Sorry Die, but things a year or 2 ago that could be called conspiracy, are openly and evidently very true today. Its just a matter of looking at the reality around you.

It is uncanny just how obvious things become when you look at things in a broad context Hollywood, Finance, Music, health. Who knows for sure what the ultimate agenda is it just seems strange how they seem to deliberately want to rub our noses in it. Freedom should not come with restrictions. Education is the only way you can end war. Beating people into submission simply is not going to work in this scenario.

[DieChecker]

Sorry Die, but things a year or 2 ago that could be called conspiracy, are openly and evidently very true today. Its just a matter of looking at the reality around you.

Isn't that what all conspiricy theorists say? They have to promote their theory as real.... otherwise how will people be informed? (Sarcasm)

Just what conspiricy are we talking about? Obama the Communist? Come on... I don't like him, but he is far from trying to destroy the US on purpose.

[preacherman76]

Isn't that what all conspiricy theorists say? They have to promote their theory as real.... otherwise how will people be informed? (Sarcasm)

I dont know what all conspiracy theorist say. But when they do infact happen its no longer a conspiracy.

Just what conspiricy are we talking about? Obama the Communist? Come on... I don't like him, but he is far from trying to destroy the US on purpose.

If I were to ask you, or anyone who has taken a basic economics high school class, 2 years ago if it would be a good thing to print trillions of dollars, that the American people would be held responible for. Only to give it to fat wall street cats, and bankster's, no one would say that was a good idea. No one. If I ask you if you thought that would hurt the economy, you (or anyone) would unquestionably say YES. And you would be correct. Yet here it is happening, and you think he ISNT trying to destroy the economy? Let go of pre conceived notions and take a look around you bro. The writing is on the wall.

[MiguelD]

I. FURTHER EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN CONFIRMATION OF THE PROPOSED LAW --

Impending Totalitarianism: Obama, Continuing from Where Bush Left-Off, Claims Authority to Murder Any American Citizen on His Say-So Alone.

http://dailypaul.com/node/124284

Obama Makes it Official: I Can Kill Any American I Want, Without Trial. Sixth Amendment Dead

By James Madison

In the boldest admission yet that the Obama administration intends the extra-judicial execution of American citizens, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence community is authorized to assassinate Americans abroad who are considered direct terrorist threats to the United States.

Dennis Blair: U.S. Can Kill Suspected American Terrorists Abroad (Huffington Post):

"We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community," Blair told lawmakers at a House Intelligence Committee hearing. "If we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that."...

Blair's latest disclosure follows last week's Washington Post report that recent military action in Yemen, which had been successful in killing many top al Qaeda officials, was approved by Obama. An American born in New Mexico, Anwar Al Awlaki is one of a handful of Americans that has been determined by the National Security Council and the Justice Department to be a U.S. intelligence target.

Some House members raised concerns about these latest developments. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who criticized the intelligence community this week for misconduct surrounding the 2001 attack on a plane piloted by American missionaries in Peru, questioned the policy.

This places President Obama in clear and direct violation of his Oath of Office to "uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," the duty which overrides all other duties of the president. This marks the first time a US president has asserted the right to murder any American citizen upon an executive order. This is a power which, left unchallenged, will now pass down to every president elected in the future.

The assertion of power relies on the post-9/11 claim that "the entire world" is now the battlefield, including the United States, and that "targets" may be killed at any time; as they sleep, dine, or travel, and not just during the heat of an actual battle. This runs contrary not only to the plain language of the Bill of Rights, but to reaffirmations since, such as by President Ronald Reagan in a 1981 Executive Order which stated "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination," and Abraham Lincoln, General Order 100 during the Civil War: "The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor."

The Founders recognized that enemies of the Constitution could be both "foreign and domestic." Obama has taken a step which his predecessor did not, which is to openly declare, in bold and premeditated fashion, that the life of an American citizen can be extinguished on his say-so, and his say-so alone. President Obama has now unmasked himself to be the foremost domestic enemy of the Constitution and of the birthrights of Americans, one of which is the Sixth Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."

The only proper remedy for such a naked grab at the rights of citizens is impeachment.

VIDEO: Dr. Ron Paul on Obama's Extrajudicial Execution

Glenn Greenwald: "Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens"

HYPOTHESIS: Barack Obama, like Butt-head Bush before him, is a Whore of the Rockefeller Plutocracy.

EVIDENCE: See Above, etc., ad nauseam.

For more, see --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

[MiguelD]

Dear TrueYouTrueMe,

I agree with you that what we are seeing today, in the U. S., is the accelerated formation of the "Fascism", or "Corporatism", "species" of the "genus" State-Capitalism, rather than of the "Communism" or "Socialism", "species" of the "genus" of State-Capitalism.

"Communism", or "Socialism" = the species of State-Capitalist political-economy that results from the takeover of the corporations by the state bureaucracy.

"Fascism" = the species of State-Capitalist political-economy that results from the takeover of the state by the largest -- oligopolistic, or outright monopolistic -- corporations.

However, you are, otherwise, missing the entire point of the post. You are missing the "Natural Law" dynamics of Capitalism.

As a "dynamical system", "Free Market", "competitive", representative-democratic Capitalism has totalitarian, multi-genocidal State-Capitalism as its "attractor".

Capitalism, which in its earlier, competitive phase, may promote civil liberty and representative democracy, degenerates inevitably into totalitarian, genocidal State-Capitalism [of one species or another].

That degeneration is the "law of motion", the "dynamic", of competitive Capitalism.

That degeneration is the unavoidable destiny of competitive, "Free Market" Capitalism.

George Orwell realized this.

"Free Market", competitive Capitalism SELF-degenerates into totalitarian State-Capitalism, for the reasons given in the original post.

This does not require some kind of contingent, avoidable moral failure, that arises "by chance", or due to some external cause.

"Free Market", competitive Capitalism itself, creates, INTERNALLY, the conditions and the forces that cause this consequence, this moral corruption -- e.g., the worship of Money [i.e., of Capital] as God; the true and single global religion of humankind today [judging by the actual, empirical behavior, or practice, of those who may profess many and diverse religious faiths].

The early blossoming of individual freedom and liberty that "Free Market", "competitive" Capitalism can bring, is SELF-undermining; SELF-subverting, due to the Concentration of Capital ownership into ever-fewer hands that it enforces, due to the increase in the ratio of fixed capital value to circulating capital value that it also enforces, hence, due to the increasing vulnerability of the econo-political power of the most concentrated capital ownership factions to 'techno-depreciation', and due to the capture of control of the state, by, essentially, bribery [and assassination of those who refuse to be bribed] by those concentrated ownership factions, that Capitalist "Free Markets", and Successful "Competition", make inevitable.

The only way out of the "Hell On Earth" that Capitalism, self-converted into State-Capitalism, otherwise makes inevitable, is the popular demand for the revolutionary reform of "generalized equity", or Equitism --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

Interesting enough post but it is not the capitalist that is forming itself as a ruling class today. It is the fascist that is.

Capitalism is a term for freedom in society in regards to the market exchange of goods, services and ideas. It is the individual freedom in regards to ownership and profit of ones ideas and work.

Socialism is a term for complete government rule in regards to the market and the ownership, exchange of goods and services, and rule of all profit by a ruling governmental class.

Both ideals (socialism and capitalism) have been in conflict for all of modern history.

Two polar forces at different ends of an ideal.

Fascism was the third way. Fascism saw this conflict and decided to use it for it's benefit. It claimed that either method (socialism or capitalism) could be used as the structure as long as it met one condition.

Every thing must be for the state. If an individual profited from the state agenda through capitalist means then so be it as long as that individual conformed to the state agenda. If individuals in the market would not conform then using socialism was the best method. Government control. But there was no need to force socialism where a capitalist was serving the state agenda.

The main purpose of the fascist is to take over the market and to bring more and more aspects of it into service of the state.

This is what we are seeing in America today. The democrat party are masters of fascism. They continually play that socialism or capitalism is not what matters as long as you are willing to follow their agenda.

No area of private life is off limits to their expansion of government power from the weather, to our sex lives, to when life begins, to or health care, etc... Everything needs to be controlled by them.

I though do not call this left-wing progressive movement a natural movement but instead call it a CORRUPTIVE movement. This is not a natural law of social evolution but is instead the decay of individual liberty and freedom.

Edited February 8, 2010 by MiguelD

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

For more about the 'techno-depreciation' dynamic, see --

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partA.pdf

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partB.pdf

For more about 'Equitism', or 'Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY', see --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.htm

Regards,

Miguel

Dear TrueYouTrueMe,

I agree with you that what we are seeing today, in the U. S., is the accelerated formation of the "Fascism", or "Corporatism", "species" of the "genus" State-Capitalism, rather than of the "Communism" or "Socialism", "species" of the "genus" of State-Capitalism.

"Communism", or "Socialism" = the species of State-Capitalist political-economy that results from the takeover of the corporations by the state bureaucracy.

"Fascism" = the species of State-Capitalist political-economy that results from the takeover of the state by the largest -- oligopolistic, or outright monopolistic -- corporations.

However, you are, otherwise, missing the entire point of the post. You are missing the "Natural Law" dynamics of Capitalism.

As a "dynamical system", "Free Market", "competitive", representative-democratic Capitalism has totalitarian, multi-genocidal State-Capitalism as its "attractor".

Capitalism, which in its earlier, competitive phase, may promote civil liberty and representative democracy, degenerates inevitably into totalitarian, genocidal State-Capitalism [of one species or another].

That degeneration is the "law of motion", the "dynamic", of competitive Capitalism.

That degeneration is the unavoidable destiny of competitive, "Free Market" Capitalism.

George Orwell realized this.

"Free Market", competitive Capitalism SELF-degenerates into totalitarian State-Capitalism, for the reasons given in the original post.

This does not require some kind of contingent, avoidable moral failure, that arises "by chance", or due to some external cause.

"Free Market", competitive Capitalism itself, creates, INTERNALLY, the conditions and the forces that cause this consequence, this moral corruption -- e.g., the worship of Money [i.e., of Capital] as God; the true and single global religion of humankind today [judging by the actual, empirical behavior, or practice, of those who may profess many and diverse religious faiths].

The early blossoming of individual freedom and liberty that "Free Market", "competitive" Capitalism can bring, is SELF-undermining; SELF-subverting, due to the Concentration of Capital ownership into ever-fewer hands that it enforces, due to the increase in the ratio of fixed capital value to circulating capital value that it also enforces, hence, due to the increasing vulnerability of the econo-political power of the most concentrated capital ownership factions to 'techno-depreciation', and due to the capture of control of the state, by, essentially, bribery [and assassination of those who refuse to be bribed] by those concentrated ownership factions, that Capitalist "Free Markets", and Successful "Competition", make inevitable.

The only way out of the "Hell On Earth" that Capitalism, self-converted into State-Capitalism, otherwise makes inevitable, is the popular demand for the revolutionary reform of "generalized equity", or Equitism --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

II. FURTHER EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN CORROBORATION OF THE STATED "NATURAL LAW OF HUMAN-SOCIAL EVOLUTION" --

Impending Corporatist, Plutocratic Totalitarianism: Corporate Whores on U. S. Supreme Court Dis-Enfranchise All Americans But the Handful of Mega-Corporate Plutocrats who Bought Them

Consider the recent decision by the majority, corporate-purchased faction of the U. S. Supreme Court, to disenfranchise all other American citizens, by enabling the handful of plutocrats who own and/or control the largest corporations to spend without limit, to buy any U. S. election they want, and to spend without limit to "dis-elect" any elected official in the U. S. White House, the U. S. Senate, or the U. S. House of Representatives who does not do EXACTLY what they order that elected official to do.

I would consider that U. S. Supreme Court Act to be yet further empirical evidence corroborating the "Natural Law of Social Evolution" described in the original post of this thread. Wouldn't you?

Likewise, the Obama administration's recent assertion that the U. S. President has the right to order the murder of any U. S. Citizen, on his say-so alone.

HOW BAD DO THINGS HAVE TO GET BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY?

REMEMBER: Totalitarian proto-dictatorships typically start out -- in setting their precedents for their eventual police state rule -- by victimizing those who are widely regarded as "gooks" -- e.g., the poor in general, people of African ancestry [e.g., in New Orleans; in Haiti; all over Africa], Gypsies, Jews, Native Peoples, Arabs, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, etc.

However -- before you know what hit you -- YOU ARE THE "GOOK"!

And, by then, it's too late to save yourself and your family from the Plutocracy's New Gulags!

For some ways forward, see --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.htm

More about recent U. S. Supreme Court treason from another author --

"This is the third in our series of lambasts against the various multitude of gross errors in the ruling by the Supreme Court 5 (Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Scalia & Thomas) to turn corporations into super citizens. The first alert addressed their constructive treason in expressly empowering foreign corporations to speak in our elections, the second vivisected their haste and derelict abandonment of all prudent procedure.

Be sure to submit the two action pages on this issue from which we are just starting to build the movement and political will to repudiate the rogue Supreme Court 5.

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This third installment will demonstrate their ad hoc prestidigitation of findings of fact on which to ground the opinion. Again we will reference specific page citations to the actual opinion, together with our review of all the legal filings in this case, including the so-called "amicus" (friend of the court) third parties, and the transcript of the oral argument, itself telling in many ways.

We had already pointed out that Kennedy, writing for a skin's teeth of a majority, plowed ahead without sending the case back down to the lower court for the development of a factual record on the issue THEY wanted to rule on (in a predetermined and unprecedented way as it turns out). Instead he conjured facts out of thin hot air to justify his holding, and we will have to play detective somewhat to figure out where this factual garbage even came from

Critical to Kennedy's justification for why corporations should for the first time be awarded the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to tilt the tables of our elections was the finding, as a matter of fact, that existing PAC (political action committee) alternatives were too BURDENSOME and suppressive of this magical new corporation free speech right to drown out the voice of actual citizens in our elections. (opinion pp. 21-22).

And as support for this sweeping and totalitarian assertion of factual reality, what source does Kennedy lean on?? Why, little more than his OWN DISSENT in the one of very Supreme Court cases (McConnell) this opinion revisits and overrules (so much for respect for stare decisis), where HE made that assertion in DEFIANCE of the majority ruling in that case. Again here, he just recites his personal grudge list of the cruel and unusual (in his opinion) filing requirements for PACs, absent any determination by any trier of fact (besides his absolute self) that these requirements are per se onerous.

Oh, but it gets worse. For you see, no actual party to this litigation made any such factual claim that we can find in the record on appeal. Instead, in this part of the opinion Kennedy is just essentially regurgitating verbatim the ARGUMENTS of one of the THIRD PARTY amicus briefs!! (opinion p. 22) What he did here was take the assertions of a non-party in a tangential filing, the ONLY one to make such arguments, totally after the fact of anything tried in the actual case, and he elevated those arguments to the pedestal status of a complete factual record from the court below.

How much more offensive to any sense of judicial fair play could it possibly get? The point of a TRIAL is to take testimony, to try factual assertions in the crucible of a fact finding court, to have a judge determine based on a full and fair record what facts are to be given weight, with both parties given an opportunity to present any relevant evidence. But in our new Supreme Court of the Five Kangaroos, they can sit as judge, jury and executioner of all facts without any such procedural fairness, and based on their OWN prejudicial predetermination.

To her credit, in oral argument Justice Sotomayor attempted to address the fact that the Court appeared to be bent on proceeding in the absence of an adequate factual record on the issue it purportedly was to decide (oral argument p 25, lines 12-22). Here was attorney Ted Olsen's response to her question.

"It is the government has the burden to prove the record that justifies telling someone that wants to make a 90-minute documentary about a candidate for president that they will go to jail if they broadcast it. The government has the obligation and the government had a long legislative record and plenty of opportunity to produce that record and it's their obligation to do so." (oral argument p. 25, line 25 - p. 26, line 7, and please take careful note of Olsen's unbelievably snaky reference to a "legislative" record, as contrasted with a FACTUAL record by trial in a lower court, and his inflammatory use of the word "jail").

Where did this guy get his law license ... out of a cereal box??

In the first place, the government was not the "plaintiff" (the one bringing the case) here. The government was not prosecuting a case here to put anybody in jail. The plaintiff in this case was so-called Citizens United, both on appeal and in the court below. In our system of justice the plaintiff is ALWAYS the one with the burden of proof, and where, as here, they ABANDONED the issue that the Supreme Court 5 raised from the dead by a wave of their unilateral godlike hand, there was NO requirement for the government to make a case to the contrary. Indeed, on the issues that WERE tried below, the government DID develop whatever factual record was necessary to win, even by the biased standards of this Supreme Court (opinion p. 10).

What kind of integrity challenged advocate would try to throw the obligation of proof back on the defendant so long after the fact of an issue waived?

And what kind of dishonest Supreme Court would try to pass off as justice such a short shrift of a factual record? Kennedy asserts in the opinion that it's really all OK because in one of the stare decisis cases (which they are REVERSING) there was a record of 100,000 pages on roughly the same issue (opinion p. 15), so they can rely on that, totally disregarding that THAT case ruled AGAINST Kennedy's zombie proposition. What has changed? Nothing has changed but an additional right wing drop kick ideologue on the court to vote to take the SAME facts and arrive at the diametrically contrary result many years later. 100,000 pages of record that went the other way against a new record in this case of ZERO pages. Some record!

It just so happens that Anthony M. Kennedy is the LAST person who should ever be allowed to make a finding of a fact about anything in the real world, let alone from the bench of the Supreme Court. Consider this pearl of cave dwelling mentality from his mouth in the oral argument, in defense of the admittedly ad hominem corporate hit piece about Hillary Clinton in this case.

"But, No. 1, the phenomenon of -- of television ads where we get information about scientific discovery and -- and environment and transportation issues from corporations who after all have patents because they know something, that -- that is different." (oral argument, p. 73, lines 5-10)

Oh sure, that's what corporations do all day long with their TV ads, finance educational and enlightening public service announcements. You mean like all those ads from defense contractors pitching their new missile system as being people friendly? If any court ever needed a factual record to tell them what is actually going on out here in the real world it surely must be this one.

But alas, at this point this alert is already quite long, and we have still only scratched the surface of the totally bogus findings of purported fact on which this outrageously heinous decision was based. So we will have to keep you in suspense until the next installment of the analysis of this shameful decision in ... the ongoing and tragic Saga of the Outlaw Supreme Court 5

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Regards,

Miguel

Edited February 9, 2010 by MiguelD

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY OF THE LAW OF CAPITALISM'S INEVITABLE SELF-DEGENERATION:

Competitive, Representative-Democratic, Social-Productivity-Accelerating Private Capitalism INEVITABLY degenerates into the Oligopolistic/Monopolistic 'Whoreocracy' such as we see in the United States today -- that is, into a Monopolistic, Plutocratic-Totalitarian, Social-Productivity-Destroying State Capitalism, which grows Multi-Genocidal as it grows a Ruling Plutocracy that mortally fears 'Techno-Depreciation', UNTIL --

1. The majority of the People rise up, and institute Equitarian, or Political-Economic, Democracy, with new constitutional checks and balances against Political Power borne of Economic Ownership-Concentration, giving rise to the first Global, Humanity-wide Renaissance in recorded Human History,

OR,

2. The majority of the People fail to rise up, thus allowing the [state-]Capitalist Plutocracy to successfully impose its planned "New Dark Age", already evident in the plutocracy's engineered global economic collapse, now underway.

Background --

On Equitarian, or Political-Economic, Democracy, the Successor System to Capitalism if Humanity is to Survive:

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.htm

On Techno-Depreciation:

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partA.pdf

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TechnoDepreciation/TechnoDepreciation-partB.pdf

Regards,

Miguel

[J.B.]

Social systems are animals just like people. Super-organisms of which we are the cells. Of course, we're all really stem cells if we're willing to change our role and take action, brain cells waiting to happen.

[MiguelD]

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESIS: WHY IT IS PREDICTABLE THAT THE DECADENT-PHASE RULING PLUTOCRACY TURNS 'MULTI-GENOCIDAL' --

" . . . For example, note the levels of prices and inflation from 1665 to 2005 below [e2]:

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/MaladyAndRemedy/MaladyAndRemedy.htm

After the "turning point" as defined above — i.e., once fixed capital "outweighs" living human labor-power in the plutocracy's core industrial production mix — these processes will generate a generally-declining trend in the return on the plutocracy's core industrial capital investments.

This declining trend arises, because the exposure to 'techno-depreciation' losses of the plutocracy's core industrial "plant and equipment", exceeds the potential profitability gains, both these losses and these gains being produced by a single cause: productivity increase.

This declining trend will continue for as long as that plutocracy permits such competition to operate somewhat freely, or, for as long as that plutocracy lacks the accumulated, concentrated capital-money-based political power necessary to successfully contrive to constrain such competition.

Extensive extracts from the writings of many observers of political-economy, describing this dynamic of 'techno-depreciation', have been collected in one document. [e3]

We will cite, here, only two examples, not included in those extracts, to epitomize the flavor of those other expert observers' observations:

* Example A:

From Charles Babbage's (circa 1832) book, On The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. Even in the early-to-mid 1800s, in the U.K.'s machine-based manufacturing:

"The improvement which took place not long ago in frames for making patent-net was so great, that a machine, in good repair, which had cost £1200, sold a few years later for £60. During the great speculations in that trade, the improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility." [e4]

* Example B:

From Harold Livesay's book, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business. In the late 1800s, around 1888, in the U. S. steel industry:

"Carnegie ... [gave] his staff standing orders to replace obsolete machinery.... Bill Jones complied enthusiastically and soon had a renowned dump full of outmoded though not outworn machinery.... Carnegie once ordered Charles Schwab to rip out and rebuild a three-month-old rolling mill when Schwab said he had discovered a better design." [e5]

As noted already in Hypothesis I, lodged above, such declining profitability, tied to declining prices of general industrial output, occurred, for example, in the U. S., in the late 1800s, leading up to the imposition, by the plutocracy, of the Federal Income Tax system, and of the Federal Reserve System, in 1913, and of World War I, in 1914.

Hypothesis II: The Core Plutocracy's Solution to the Crisis of 'Techno-Depreciation'

These impositions were, in fact, the plutocracy's "solution" to the 'techno-depreciation' crisis of industrial capital profitability, which was also a viability-crisis for the global, capital-based social system as a whole. These solutions begat, in their wake, the plutocracy's power to create World War I, to engineer the currency inflation "bubble" of the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War of the 1940s [though this was partly the result of their failure: of the 'Franken-Dictator' turn of their erstwhile servant-dictator, Hitler, against them], the post-World War II continual inflation since [see the chart above], and the Global Crisis of Humanity that is now fast upon us.

This productivity-growth / capital-value annihilation process will generate secular net losses, instead of net profitability, to the plutocracy's industrial production capital assets, until that plutocracy imposes, upon the rest of society, mechanisms to convert such continuing, ongoing, and even accelerating private losses to the plutocracy's businesses, into ongoing, continual, even accelerating social losses to the rest of society — losses to wages and salaries, and to the life-conditions, of the rest of society as a whole.

The plutocracy accomplishes this conversion of its losses, otherwise private and confined to itself — capital 'techno-losses' — into losses for the majority of the rest of the human population, via the establishment of central bank mechanisms enforcing "permanent inflation", such as the mechanisms of the U. S. Federal Reserve System. For more on this, see the film, "Zeitgeist: Addendum". [e6]

"Permanent inflation" is, precisely, a permanent tendency to reduce real wages and salaries, if nominal wages and salaries remain constant, or even if wages and salaries increase, but at a rate of increase (s)lower than the rate of general consumer price inflation.

Geert Reuten more fully describes this process of conversion of 'techno-deflation', and of 'techno-depreciation losses' to private capital, via continual inflation, into social losses. [e7]

Narration of U. S. Inflation-History Chart

Consider again the chart [e2] of the history of U. S. price levels from 1665 to 2005.

What stories does it tell, about what previous generations have been through, and about what is now upon us?

Note the "Great Inflation" that began circa 1915, and also note the decided lack of any such continual inflationary trend throughout the 250 years prior to that, from 1665 to 1915.

Before ~1915: One sees, in this chart, a series of somewhat shallow undulations — somewhat shallow relative to what arises after 1915 — a series of alternating, aperiodic 'acycles', acyclical waves of inflation and deflation, shadowing "business cycles", with peaks of inflation around times of war.

After ~1915: One sees an unprecedented, towering, essentially unbroken upward "exponential" trend line [with a nearly "symmetric perturbation" around that trend-line, of inflation in the 1920s 'engineered bubble', turning into nearly "equal and opposite" deflation in the 1930s Great Depression] — albeit with a further acceleration after ~1965 — of ever-escalating price levels, continual inflation.

Hypothesis III: The Conversion of 'Techno-Depreciation' into General Inflation

The post-1915 continual inflation overall — apart from temporally-local, shorter-duration, 'bubble-engineering', and war-related transients — is, precisely, general 'techno-depreciation' converted into general inflation.

It is private 'techno-losses' to the plutocracy converted into social livelihood losses for the social majority, via the mechanisms of the Federal Reserve Banks system, imposed upon that majority by the plutocracy from 1913 on, through to the present.

Reuten describes succinctly how this conversion process works:

"To the extent that technical change accelerates, price competition precludes the full amortization of capital investments.

In contrast with the common opinion that both technical change and competition are key characteristics of the capitalist system, they are incompatible, at least when technical change accelerates.

Such acceleration then gives rise to forms of concurrence — abstinence from price competition, price leaderships, cartels. The particular form depends on the structure of production of enterprises (i.e. the make-up of the stratification of capital).

Concurrence is a major determinant of the inflationary form of the accumulation of capital.

Because it is in their interest, banks tend to accommodate the concurrent price settings of enterprises and so to accommodate a socialisation of private losses that would be due to the devaluation of capital in the case of price competition.

Price inflation also puts enterprises in a relatively advantageous position vis-á-vis labour."

— Geert Reuten, "The Incompatibility of Prolonged Technical Change and Competition: Concurrence and the Socialization of Entrepreneurial Losses through Inflation" [e7]

See also Joseph M. Gillman's book, The Falling Rate of Profit, published by Dennis Dobson (London: 1957), especially pages 47-57 [e8], and the forthcoming Equitism article, "Exposing the Existential, Ontological, Historical Self-Contradiction That Capital Is — The Solution to the Riddle of the [Psycho-]History of Capitalism".

Hypothesis IV: Timing of the Core Plutocracy's Conversion to 'Capitalist Anti-Capitalism'

This prolonged ~35 year period (from 1865 through 1900) of steep, deep, sustained 'techno-deflation' was the real '''turning point crisis''' for the ruling, capital-based plutocracy. In this period, the falling prices, plus the falling profit margins, and the falling profit rates, that accompanied it — impacted not just a restricted class of goods, like computers, or other "consumer electronics" in general today, but the broad classes of industrially-produced commodities.

This was, for the core plutocracy, the "Gotterdammerung" of their industrial capital "Gott". This was, for them, the "turning point" from the ascendance phase to the decadence phase of the system of industrial, technological, competitive capital.

It was this protracted experience that turned the core plutocracy against industrial, technological, competitive capitalism; that turned this ruling plutocracy into "capitalist anti-capitalists".

Not the Panic of 1907, not the Panic of 1920, nor the prolonged 'hyper-deflation' of the "Great Depression" 1930s, but rather this prolonged fall in their rate of profit, was the "turning point" as far as this ruling plutocracy was concerned.

Indeed, the Panic of 1907 — which this core plutocracy used in their argument for the creation of the Federal Reserve System, to help them impose it on a suspicious public — and the Panic of 1920, and the "Great Depression" itself, were, in fact, contrived by the core plutocracy.

This core plutocracy contrived these socio-economic catastrophes as the beginnings of their response to, and of their retaliations against, the mortal threat that they felt being posed to their rule by 'techno-depreciation', by the general growth of technology-based and of technologically-facilitated productivity, by the growth of the '''productive force''' of human labor in general, by scientific progress applied as technological progress, and by the prosperity that all of this '''potentiated''' for the majority of humanity. For more on this, see "Zeitgeist: The Movie" [e9], moving the slider so as to start the movie at time-frame ~1:14:28 [Part III, DON'T MIND THE MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN].

Illustrative Counterfactual Conditional

Had this ruling plutocracy not acted to resuscitate its profitability — at the expense of the rest of society, as we shall see — the rate of profit after ~1900 would have continued to fall, soon reaching a point whereafter capital-based and profit-motivated industrial production would have ground to a halt.

The majority population would have been forced to discover and to invent a new system of social relations, one which would resuscitate, mediate, and 'sustainedly' motivate a re-starting, and a re-continuation, of the social re-production of their social livelihood(s), a system of social relations that transcended the capital-/wage-labor-relation.

Hypothesis V: The "Law" of the Tendency of the Rate of Capital Profitability to Fall

Both of the kinds of consequences of the technological advance of productivity that we have noted above — of productivity-increase-caused 'de-value-ation' of the "plant and equipment" capital-value-asset, and of its commodity-output — can reduce the rate, or ratio, of "Return" on the "historical" or "original" capital-cost/capital-value of the plutocracy's past, "sunk" capital-monetary "Investment(s)":

1. 'Techno-deflation' of the prices of the plutocracy's commodity outputs produced via this "plant and equipment", reduces per-commodity-unit sales revenues, hence also reducing the per-commodity-unit monetary "Return" on the capital-money "Invested" in these "plant and equipment" capital-assets, "squeezing" per-commodity-unit profit margins, thus reducing the "Returns" numerator of the net-revenue "Returns" divided by fixed-capital-Investment value-ratio;

2. Episodic "write-downs" of the "historical", "original" book-value of these "plant and equipment" capital-assets — often "writing them down" to a zero capital-monetary-value, after their 'techno-depreciation' has been recognized -- also subtracts out of the "Returns" numerator of the net-revenue "Returns" divided by fixed-capital-Investment value-ratio.

However, in the case of this second consequence, the amount of the "Returns" numerator write-down also, simultaneously, subtracts out from the fixed-capital-Investment denominator of the net-revenue "Returns" divided by fixed-capital-Investment value-ratio. This raises the question as to the overall effect, upon the magnitude of the net-revenue "Returns" divided by fixed-capital-Investment value-ratio as a whole, of this concurrent reduction of both the numerator-component and the denominator-component of this ratio as a whole, by a decrement of the same magnitude for each.

For example, both of these consequences of 'techno-depreciation' can reduce the ratio of net revenue over capital-value invested; can reduce the '''yield'''-ratio, the profit-ratio, or profit-rate, on capital, in that sense, as a secularly-visible, empirically-measurable trend over time.

This is so because both consequences reduce the numerator of that profit-ratio, relative to the fixed-capital Investment-value denominator of that profit-ratio.

Both (consequence 1) reduced commodity unit-revenues from sales, resulting from reduced commodity unit-prices, and (consequence 2) sales revenues episodically reduced by write-offs of part or all of the historical cost of 'techno-depreciated' "plant and equipment", i.e., of "fixed capital", can reduce the R numerator of the profitability-measuring "Return on Investment", net-Revenue-over-fixed-capital-Investment, or (Returns / Investment), '''yield'''-ratio, relative to its "plant and equipment" Investment-cost, or I, denominator.

Note that effect (2) also reduces the I denominator, by an equal amount of techno-depreciation write-off, d, to that which reduces the R numerator, but the numerator-reduction-effect predominates with respect to the magnitude of the "Return on Investment" ratio as a whole, for, if I > R > d > 0, then ((R - d)/(I - d)) < (R/I).

For a proof of this proposition, see the end-notes to this article. [e10]

The Core Plutocracy Abhors the Worldwide Rise of [Working-]Middle Classes and of their Political Democracy

Similarly, the human development that inherently accompanies this technological advancement of commodity productivity, likewise threatens, in the eyes of the plutocracy, their continued power to rule.

The more educated, better-paid, healthier, somewhat-leisured workers required to run technologically-advanced, high productivity, low unit-cost production units, workers with sufficient free time to potentially participate in politics — i.e., the emergence of the modern "middle class"; the peopling of the higher technical-composition-of-labor stratum of the wagéd or salaried working class — all together constitute another growing threat to the ruling-power of the plutocracy, in the "eyes" of that plutocracy.

Educated, dual-skilled, i.e., mentally-and-manually-skilled workers, granted some free time, can begin to question and to see through the vitiating ideologies employed by this plutocracy, as well as by its ancestor ruling classes, heretofore, to divide-and-conquer — to dis-empower — the majority of the human race.

These ideologies include pseudo-spiritual religions.

These ideologies also include 'ethnicist', racist, sexist, and classist belief systems.

As well, these ideologies include, most recently, the pseudo-ecological, 'People Are Pollution' ideologies.

All of these ideologies are psycho-manufactured, to order, by the plutocracy's ideology-engineering apparatuses, in part, to condition the public to acquiesce in the plutocracy's planned global multi-genocides.

The core, ruling faction of the oil/finance plutocracy, has realized that the continuation of capitalism itself, of its competitive incentives to growing technological productivity, and of its concomitant growth of middle classes world-wide — i.e., capitalism's engendering of the growth of an advanced working class of manually and mentally developed producers — increasingly impends the overthrow of that faction's global, rapacious tyranny.

In response to this realization, that core plutocracy has turned against capitalist, political-only democracy, against capitalism itself, and against humanity as a whole, other than itself.

As far as these plutocrats are concerned, no amount of murder is too high a price to pay, in order to hold on to their power.

Indeed, mass murder is the only '''great enjoyment''' left to these hyper-sadistic, twisted, de Sade-ian degenerations of humanity. As, in our ancient past, with Nero, and with Caligula, power has corrupted the core ruling plutocracy of today; near-absolute power has corrupted them near-absolutely.

The innermost, ruling faction of the ruling plutocracy have thus become, "secretly"— "secretly", that is, for all those unable to read "between the lines" of their propaganda — 'capitalist anti-capitalists', and 'human anti-human[ist]s'.

As a result, the oil/finance plutocracy has resolved to crush the rising global middle class, to collapse science, educational levels, technological advancement, productive technology [as opposed to, for example, military, mass-murderous technology, and police-state surveillance technology], and therefore, also, to collapse majority living standards and human population levels to — at best! — [neo-]feudal norms, reducing the global human population by ~ 90%.

The plutocracy aims, thereby, to "cut down to size" their global [servile] human population, i.e., to a level over which — or so the plutocracy imagines — they can manage to perpetuate their rule, and their perks-of-rule — their lives of plunder, torture, rape, and mass murder — for all futurity.

This — or something even worse — is their ['Meta-Nazi'] '''Final Solution to the Humanity Problem'''.

The hyper-concentration of property and wealth in their hands gives the ruling faction of the plutocracy the means to employ governments, and the corporate mass media, world-wide, to accomplish their ultra-evil ends.

The 'techno-depreciation' threat — the threat of the process whereby accumulating capital-value technologically de-values, and thus dis-accumulates, itself — as well as the threat of middle [working-]class advancement inherent in competitive capitalism, gives that plutocracy their motive.

Generations of plutocratic inheritance of generally accelerating, hyper-accumulating, and hyper-concentrating ownership of capital-wealth, coupled with generations of dis-inheritance of all other social classes, world-wide, has given this plutocratic faction the economic, monetary power to prostitute the branches of political government to its will, in the U.S., in the U.K., in the rest of the E.U., and beyond.

Initially, it accomplishes this 'whorification' of political government through massive lobbying and other bribery, through selective granting (or denial) of its foundations' massive funding, supplemented by its corporate mass media's character-assassinations, and physical assassinations, of those who, for whatever reasons, still refuse to be bought-off.

Thus, the houses of legislature have become houses of prostitution.

The executive branches and the judiciaries are, likewise, increasingly reduced to utter whoredom to the oil/finance plutocracy.

The corporate mass media, the theocratic-totalitarian movements — the pseudo-Christian, the pseudo-Judaic, the pseudo-Islamicist, etc. — and the 'Soylent-Green' ideology of the "People are Pollution" pseudo-religion of neo-Malthusian environmentalist "Earthism", are now all wholly-owned subsidiaries of the "charitable foundations" and of the other ideology-engineering apparatuses of this core plutocracy.

The Genesis of the Core Plutocracy's 'Anti-Marxian Marxianism'

The Long 'Techno-Deflation', ~1865 to ~1900 [~35 Years]:

Throughout this discussion, we have made use of insights gleaned from the writings of Karl Marx, humanity's deepest and most insightful student of the capitals-system so far.

When we refer to the tradition of Marxian theory, we do NOT include those who falsely claim to be the owners of Marx's legacy: NOT Lenin, NOT Trotsky, NOT Stalin, NOT Mao, NOT Castro, NOT Kim IL Sung, ... — NOT any of the totalitarian, STATE-Capitalist pseudo-Marxians — dictators and mass murderers — each more akin to a ruler of the core plutocracy, to a rival of, and to an "alternate" version of, the typical leader of the core capitalist ruling class, than to a scientist of human liberation, and a benefactor of humanity, such as Marx.

Make no mistake about it: the name of Karl Marx, and the content of his theories, came also to the attention of the core plutocracy in these years.

The name, and the theories, came to their attention because of the threat to the power of their competitors in Germany, posed by the German "Social Democratic" party, and movement, both of which affirmed the name, and the theories, of Karl Marx, however superficially, as part of their heritage and inspiration.

The name, and the theories, also came to their attention because of the anti-Czarist movement then building up in Russia, leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1905, which also claimed that name and those theories, however accurately or inaccurately, as part of their inspiration.

The core plutocracy, from its very inception, has always been willing and able to afford the counsel of the greatest minds that money can buy.

They put the best of these minds, the minds of their best intellectual prostitutes, to work, during this period, on the theories of Karl Marx.

This work led to their realization that, as the first principle of Marx's theory asserts, growth of capitalist society's "productive forces" — i.e., growth of the technology-based productivity of capital "plant and equipment" — will grow to a stage where it dissolves capital. Indeed, the growth of productivity does so all along, but, at first, only partially, and gradually. Finally, however, it will do so preponderantly, suddenly, and totally.

Growth of productivity — growth of the wealth-creative, self-reproductive power of human society — embodied in [fixed] capital ["plant and equipment"], destroys capital; destroys the capital-value of "plant and equipment", by 'techno-depreciation'.

Growth of the "social forces of production", of social productivity, of the self-productivity of human society, of the wealth-creating power of humanity, which capital itself incents, annihilates capital.

This growth of humanity's social self-reproductive force will, at length, annihilate capital's accumulated value, annihilate capital's profitability, and, thus, will also annihilate the socio-political preponderant power of those who own the preponderance of capital: the core plutocracy.

A sense of the centrality of the concept named "The Growth of the Social Forces of Production" in Marx's theory of 'Human Social Meta-Evolution' can be formed via the text, "The Heart and Soul of Marxian Theory". [e11]

Hypothesis VI: The Core Plutocracy, Secretly, Came to Believe that Marx was Right about that Plutocracy's "Lawful" Fate under Capital[-ism]

The core plutocracy came to believe, during those years, in summary, that Marx's predictions about the destiny of Capitalism, and about their destiny, within it, were, essentially, correct, as well as being totally unacceptable to them!

Once this conviction took hold within them, these ruling plutocrats realized that they faced two options:

* 1. Continual, accelerating erosion of their accumulated, gargantuan fixed "plant and equipment" capital-value "principal", and of its profitability, or "[net-]returns", and, therefore, continual, accelerating erosion of their socio-political power to predominate over the rest of humanity, and thus the erosion of all the "perks" of that predominance, together with an "entropic-doom-like" "winding down" of the global system of capital, which they had ruled.

The global system of capital, as the present means and medium of worldwide human species social reproduction, given that this system is motivated and driven by "[net-]returns" on capital investment — by capital profitability — and by capital-value "principal" accumulation, would "wind down" as these motivating forces waned with the waning of profitability caused by accelerating 'techno-depreciation'.

This waning of the social reproductive forces of capitalism would force the non-plutocrats, the rest of the people, to create a new means and medium for their social reproduction — on pain of death — i.e., in order to resuscitate their livelihoods.

There were already signs that this new means and medium of human social reproduction would take the form of a more egalitarian political-and-economic democracy, in which those plutocrats would lose all of their "perks of rule" — would be "reduced" to the status of "mere" commoners like everyone else.

Plutocrats such as these cannot stand such a thought!

Indeed, such mentalities, to this very day, fly into a humanocidal rage whenever they see we "commoners" getting ahead in the least.

In their view, they must be "above" us. The entire self-identity of each one of them depends upon that "elevated" status!

They would rather die — or, preferably, they would rather that we die — rather than lose their status, their predominance, their power over us.

OR

* 2. They would have to apply Marx's principle in reverse, and in opposition to Marx's liberatory intent.

They would have to reverse, to undo, all of the progress of the ascendant phase of the capital epoch.

They would have to reverse the growth of the social forces of production that capitalism had produced.

They would have to block competition from technologically-innovative new-entrant "upstarts" in the already-industrialized nations, prevent "pre-capitalist" nations from "capitalizing", industrializing, and competing, using the latest, most advanced equipment, destroy public education, and popular hope and belief in the promise of progress, science, and technology, destroy the growth of middle [working-]classes worldwide, and impose superstition-based "neo-feudal" dictatorships everywhere, to stop democratic and scientifico-technological advance.

This prospect of a "restoration" of '''[neo-]feudal aristocratism''' was particularly appealing to some of the crypto-'''aristocratic''' member-families of the core plutocracy — families of the former European feudal '''[ig-]noble''' ruling class, who had maintained their great wealth despite the anti-feudal, democratic-capitalist revolutions in England, France, etc., and who had thence transitioned, as '''crypto-capitalists''', into the capitalist ruling class.

The Genesis of the Core Plutocracy's 'Human Anti-Humanism'

As a consequence of reversing the growth of the productive forces, reducing productivity, and reducing production, back to pre-capitalist levels, thus reducing the human '''carrying capacity''', not of nature, but of human society, they would also have to drastically reverse the growth of human population worldwide — to '''eugenicize''' and reduce the global population of commoner "riff raff".

This would also, in their eyes, have the '''by-product benefit''' of reducing the workload of their servant-dictatorships' secret police, and thus of increasing the probability that their servant-dictatorships could maintain the enslavement and oppression of the remaining "commoner", neo-peonic population, as well as the suppression of any tendencies to rekindle scientific and technological advance.

Indeed, the Rockefeller Eugenics "Movement", in the U. S. — not yet today's Rockefeller-subverted perversion of the grassroots anti-pollution movement, the Rockefeller-funded, 'Soylent Green', humanocidal pseudo-religion of "People Are Pollution", Neo-Malthusian 'Earthism' — was the first new ideology, together with the ideology of "Social Darwinism", by which the core plutocracy sought to elicit public acquiescence in their planned, world-wide multi-genocide.

Indeed, Adolph Hitler, initially a core-plutocracy-funded servant-dictator, modeled his early, proto-Holocaust decrees on the legislation imposed in the U. S. by the Rockefeller-funded Eugenics "Movement". Hitler received direct financial support from that U. S. Eugenics "Movement" [for more on this, see the book "War Against the Weak", by Edwin Black]. [e8_1]

The core plutocracy's new, 'Soylent Green' "Global Warming" ideology as "justification" for global genocide — since '''human population is the root of all pollution ["People Are Pollution"]''' — is, indeed, the direct successor to the Rockefeller/Hitler Eugenics ideology of the 1920s-1930s. [e8_2]

The ultra-secret meetings that crafted the legislation to establish the Federal Reserve System, and its regime of continual inflation [see the "Zeitgeist" movie [e9], moving the slider to ~1:17:20], and the imposition of the Federal Income Tax, both in 1913, created the opening gambits of their implementation of "option 2".

Their engineering of World War I in 1914 constituted their next phase [see the "Zeitgeist" movie [e9], moving the slider to ~1:28:24].

The plutocracy's engineering of The Great Depression, the spread of the core plutocracy's militarist servant-dictatorships world-wide — Horthy in Hungary, Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany, Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, Castillo and Peron in Argentina, Hirohito and Tojo in Japan, Chiang Kai-Shek in China, etc., etc. — and of World War II, comprised their next phase after that[see "GS9: Capital Asset Bubble Engineering: An Economic Weapon of Mass Destruction in the Arsenal of the Ruling Plutocracy"]. [e12]

The core plutocrat's even planned a military coup in the United States, to overthrow the Roosevelt Presidency, and to impose yet another one of their Hitler-like dictatorships upon the people of the United States as well.

On August 22, 1934, three days after Hitler was granted total dictatorship over Germany, a pudgy agent of the plutocracy, erstwhile bond salesman Jerry MacGuire, approached General Smedley D. Butler, with an offer from the leading families of the core plutocracy — from the Rockefeller, Pew, Morgan, Mellon, and Du Pont families, among others.

They requested that General Butler raise an army of unemployed WWI veteran soldiers, lavishly provendered by these plutocratic families, and lead these embittered veterans in a military overthrow of the United States constitutional government, to depose Roosevelt, and to install himself as the first dictator of the United States, i.e., as the public front man for these families, and for their social, political, and economic policies, which he was to administer on their behalf, and under their covert "guidance". [e13]

Unfortunately for these plutocrats — and oh so fortunately for humanity as a whole — things began to go wrong with these plutocrats' plans. Their designs began to unwind.

Servant-dictator Hitler was assigned, by the core plutocracy, to attack Russia, thereby assuring the mutual destruction of Germany and Russia, and the elimination of the threat that a potential alliance between Germany and Russia posed to the global power of the core plutocracy.

It was none other than Prescott Bush himself — father of CIA Director and U. S. President George H. W. Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush, and founding father of the 'Bush Crime Family' as a servant-family to the core plutocracy — who 'conduited' much of the financing, by that core plutocracy, of Hitler's rise to power in Germany, from Bush's position in the investment bank of Brown and Harriman. This led to indictments, and to seizure of assets, under the WWII "Trading with the Enemy Act", as documented by Kevin Phillips in his book, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. [e13_1]

Thus, the 'Bush Crime Family' has been a family allocated, by the core plutocracy, to the facilitation of the core plutocracy's erstwhile Nazi servant-dictatorship — and to the facilitation of other core plutocracy servant-dictatorships world-wide; to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of many kinds — since its very inception as a servant-family within the lower plutocracy. The Bush family's latest assignment — to establish a totalitarian servant-dictatorship in the United States of America, failed, but only narrowly-so. That assignment has now passed to the Democrats, under the administration of President-to-be Barack Obama.

Unfortunately for that plutocracy, Hitler decided that he had the potential to replace them with himself, and turned on them, signing an [insincere] peace pact with Stalin, and, Frankenstein-like, attacking his erstwhile masters to the West [see "GS11: The Great Depression, World War II, Hitler, and the 'Rocke-Nazis'"]. [e14]

Hitler's "Franken-Dictator" turn forced that plutocracy to suspend their plans, and, instead, to more thoroughly utilize, rather than overthrow, the Roosevelt Administration, to militarily mobilize the U. S. working-/middle-class population to die horrific deaths by the thousands, as soldiers, to save the core plutocracy from their Franken-Dictator, Hitler.

This required some "New Deal" concessions, to motivate that mobilization, in place of the totalitarian — and 'Eugenical', '''Population Reduction'''-based '''Raw Deal''' — that the core plutocracy otherwise had planned for these American "commoners", their '''genetic inferiors'''.

After Hitler's demise, the plutocracy faced a new "Franken-Dictator" in the person of Stalin, who viciously vied with them for world domination.

Only since the fall of the Stalinist dictatorships in Russia and Eastern Europe, circa 1989, has the core plutocracy felt free to resume the implementation of their "Anti-Marxian Marxianist" plan.

The present, incipient global depression is that resumption — their engineered replay of the 1930s, with a vengeance.

Hypothesis VII: The Formerly '''Quiet''' Desperation of the Core Plutocracy has Now Exploded into Desperate, Globally-Destructive Action

Only a great fear, one which obsesses the ruling plutocrats to their craven core, could motivate them to, once again, risk exposure, and total defeat, by fomenting the global catastrophe which is now underway.

The core plutocracy constitutes a microscopically tiny portion of humanity. If the public ever catches on to the vast crimes against humanity that they have already perpetrated, and to the even greater crimes they have planned for the future, they are toast — and they know this, only too well.

The circa 1989 demise of the Stalinist dictatorships in Russia and Eastern Europe provided one source of confirmation for the desperation of the core plutocracy.

Demonstrations, so massive as to terrify and to paralyze the Stalinist militaries and secret police, broke out, unexpectedly, in the midst of full blown police states, in which freedom of expression, radio and television expression of dissent, and freedom of the press — publication of critical books and booklets and pamphlets of all kinds — were all brutally suppressed.

Years of «samizdat» — of clandestine circulation of hand-copied and mimeographed manuscripts, criticizing the Stalinist regimes from myriads of points of view — had, at length, galvanized into a social consensus so powerful as to, with very little violence, overthrow some of the most vicious totalitarian dictatorships in known human history.

Another source of confirmation has been the rapid rise of massive new middle-classes in highly-populous former "Third World" nations — especially in India and in China — middle classes which increasingly threaten, with rising political democracy, the Third-World-wide — soon to be world-wide, or so the core plutocracy plans — system of servant-dictatorships upon which the core plutocracy's global rule depends.

These new middle classes have the wherewithal to threaten the core plutocracy's global system of servant-dictatorships far more than the impoverished populations of the old Stalinist dictatorships ever did — and look what happened to those dictatorships!

It took emergency, "shock therapy" mass social torture, and massive mafia violence — orchestrated by the core plutocracy's top University of Chicago "economics" hit-men — to bring Russia and Eastern Europe back under [servant-dictatorial] "control"!

Little-known to the broad public — designedly so, on the part of the core plutocracy, via the corporate mass media that they increasingly control, e.g., with the help of FCC "regulators" — is yet another confirmation of the core plutocracy's stark, raving terror.

The latter confirmation is the recent proliferation, not only of professional scientists', but of hobbyists', basement and garage construction of "cold fusion" devices, and of Philo Farnsworth '''hot fusion''' devices, as recently featured in a page one article in The Wall Street Journal. [e15]

Websites whereby both professional scientist and amateur enthusiast contributors share insights and learnings toward fusion reactor designs have also proliferated recently. [e16]

Should one of these growing numbers of "upstarts" stumble upon a workable reactor design — or rediscover one of the designs that the core plutocracy has previously suppressed, such as Dr. Robert W. Bussard's final Inertial Electrostatic Confinement [iEC] Polywell design — and communicate this [re-]discovery into the public domain before a little "accident" can be arranged for that "upstart", the core plutocracy is toast, and they know it — only too well!

Publicly disclose fusion energy technology, and the core plutocracy's global empire of oil — and, with it, the plutocracy's power to plunder, torture, rape, and murder humanity — will be, as they say, "history".

YES! The core plutocracy was able, with IRS help, to destroy Philo Farnsworth's will to live, after he discovered the "Fusor".

YES! The core plutocracy was able to marshal their mass media, to vilify, and to character-assassinate, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleischmann, in retaliation for their public disclosure of their "cold fusion" findings.

YES! The core plutocracy was able to dispatch one of their staff hit-men to murder Dr. Eugene Mallove after his fusion advocacy had begun to reach "critical mass" [For more on this, see "GS3: The Long History of the 'Rocke-Nazi' Suppression of Nuclear Fusion Energy Development, and the Decoy of Linear-Equilibrium 'Tokamak' Fusion".] [e17]

YES! The core plutocracy was able to assassinate Dr. Robert W. Bussard, via double-cancer — as they have done with so many others '''who got in their way''' [Jack Ruby, Martha Mitchell, and former CIA-commissar Casey, among so many others, come to mind.] — less than a year after he escaped from an 11-years-long Navy gag-order, and went public with his successful IEC compact fusion reactor design, on November 9th, 2006.

The Navy had imposed the gag order upon Dr. Bussard as a condition for their funding of Dr. Bussard's research, but the Navy summarily cut-off his funding immediately after the test run that confirmed the success of his final design, thus freeing him from both his funding, and from the gag order [For more on this, see "GS5: Fusion Breakthrough".]. [e18]

But can the core plutocracy, forever, stop one of this profusion of fusion enthusiasts — perhaps one aided, openly or clandestinely, by professional engineers and scientists sympathetic to the survival and prosperity of the human species — from finding a fusion reactor design, and from going public with it, effectively — and before the core plutocracy's hit-men can pounce?

Unlike oil and other "fossil fuels", and unlike the uranium-ore, and the uranium-ore-products, that fuel nuclear fission power reactors, the primary "ore" of nuclear fusion power reactors cannot be monopolized — not by the core plutocracy, and not by anyone else.

The primary fuel of fusion, Hydrogen, is abundant worldwide, in water. There is, and must be, water, already, wherever there are human settlements.

Therefore, human progression to the fuels of fusion atomic/sub-atomic power, from the fuels of hydrocarbons-based molecular-power, and unlike the fuels of hydrocarbons-based molecular-power, cannot be used to blackmail, to debt-enslave, and to otherwise "control", the nations of the world.

The advent of fusion power — of low-cost, abundant, and potentially zero-radioactivity industrial energy — also portends global human prosperity, an end to the core plutocracy's 'Global Dictatorship of Petroleum', and an end to the core plutocracy's "ecological" excuses for its incessant subtext calls for global "population reduction".

The public communication, and implementation, of fusion energy technology is thus the Meta-Nazis' worst nightmare.

Though these plutocrats may flatter themselves that they are '''The Gods who walk the Earth''' — that they are omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent — they know, in their craven, shriveled hearts, that they are not. They know that their "batting average" is far from perfect.

These ruling plutocrats know that it is only a matter of time before another successful fusion power reactor design is discovered, and leaks out to the global public — despite the core plutocracy's '''eternal vigilance''' against fusion — UNLESS!

UNLESS the core plutocracy crushes all of the rest of humanity under a global depression, followed by a global police state, imposing unprecedented levels of electronic and nano-technological surveillance upon those relatively few non-plutocrats whom they plan to allow to continue to live!

UNLESS the core plutocracy impose their '''FINAL SOLUTION TO THE HUMANITY PROBLEM''' SOON!"

Regards,

MiguelD

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESIS: The Self-Degeneration of Competitive, Representative-Democratic

Capitalism into Plutocratic, Totalitarian, Globally Multi-Genocidal State

Capitalism -- or 'Government Capitalism' -- is a "Law Of Nature".

[MiguelD]

SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM'S "MARKET FAILURES" OF "POLLUTION EXTERNALITIES": EXTERNALITY EQUITY

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

"CITIZEN EXTERNALITY EQUITY

The social principle, and social policy, of 'Externality Equity' is both a collective-property, public-property, social-property instantiation of the so-called "Coase Theorem", and an ultimate fruition of the '''equity''' or '''equitable jurisprudence''' tradition of Anglo-American law, in contradistinction to the common law and statutory law traditions.

"Externalities" are "market failures" of the markets of Capitalism, as recognized, and as named as such, by capitalist economists, constituting a major aspect of the immanent critique of capitalism officially admitted — however much these immanent failures of 'capital-ism' may be officially downplayed — by capitalist economics.

"Externalities" comprise the "external costs", and, sometimes, the "external benefits", that are imposed, by the operations of capitalist enterprises upon those '''publics''' which are neither the owners, the employees, the customers, nor the suppliers of those enterprises, which impose upon those '''publics''' without any intrinsic provision for consent by, or compensation to, said '''publics'''.

The life-threatening toxic pollution of the air, water, and soil of residential communities by proximate industrial plants forms a classic spectrum of examples of such "external cost" imposition.

The "Coase Theorem" is the name given to the proposition, asserted by Nobel-laureate capitalist economist Ronald Coase, to the effect that externalities do not give rise to '''diseconomies''', '''distribution sub-optima''', or '''resource mis-allocations''', provided that well-defined and enforceable property rights exist, such as to create a market incentive for the externality-producer to '''internalize''' the cost of the externality.

The "equity" or "equitable jurisprudence" tradition of Anglo-American law originally emerged as a system of law, parallel and dual to the common law/statutory system of law, in the English chancery, and which came to comprise a settled and formal body of substantive and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statutory law. "Equity" in this context connotes "justice according to fairness, esp. as distinguished from mechanical application of rules".

The equity principle at work in the 'externality equities' '''second «species»''' of 'generalized equity', is the principle that publics, which suffer the '''external costs''' imposed upon them without consent or compensation by private-capital enterprises, thereby, in effect, '''purchase''' shares of a new, to-be constitutionally established and mandated class of equities – a public, collective form of equity-property – whose disposition must therefore be by means of collective, democratic decision, arrived at by vote of the publics, i.e., of the 'externality-equity' owners, '''shareholders''', or '''stakeholders'''.

'Externality Equity' implies an immanent-/self-expansion of joint-stock-company stockholder democracy principles, inherent in the capital-relation, to encompass the constitutional, legislative, and regulatory 'institution-ization' of generalized, comprehensive '''stakeholder democracy'''.

'Equitism' begins with constitutional recognition of a new 'socio-ontological category' of equities: 'externality equities'.

'Externality Equity' generalizes core, capital-equity logic to encompass economic democracy, starting with public, democratic econo-political governance of the core of capitalism's '''market failures''' – its production and accumulation of an ever-mounting burden of the '''externalities''' that it foists upon its publics, publics who may be "third parties" – neither customers of, nor employees of, nor owners of, nor suppliers of the capital-entity producing the "externalities" in question.

Envisioning the Transition

We expect to find — given a protracted and appropriate, including «samizdat», preparation of the majority social conscience — the emergence of a majoritarian, popular movement for the 'Equitarian Reform' and 'economic-democratic extension' of the "representative-democratic", '''political-democratic''' constitutions of the nations of the capital-system's global market core.

We expect this movement to develop in response to the accelerating '''political-economic immiseration''' and degradation of those societies in the accelerating on-rush, by their ruling classes, into the multi-genocidal, state-capitalist totalitarian destiny engendered by the unresisted decadent-phase depredations of the capitals-system.

The envisioned 'Equitarian Reforms' are a 'constitutionalization' and 'juridicalization', into social law, of an immanent critique, or self-critique, of the "capital-relation" — of capital – a critique both theoretical and practical.

The institutional infrastructure of the 'Externality Equity' «species» of 'generalized equity' is a scaled self-similarity structure, a 'synchronic meta-fractal', of economic governance bodies, based in publicly-elected, base-elected public directors, serving in the new, constitutionally-mandated, '''second houses''' of local, newly bi-cameral boards of directors: the public stakeholders' «camera», or 'externality-equities' «camera», of that newly bi-cameral governance.

Per this programme, these "second house", 'public boards of directors', or 'boards of popularly-elected, public directors', are to be constitutionally required in all local enterprises with sufficient externalities impact, in accordance with a constitutionally-stipulated externalities-impact metric, and a threshold stipulated in terms of that metric.

These new, public boards, would co-manage, in continuous negotiation with the traditional, 'internality-equities' board, and/or its local "management committee", or "executive committee" delegates, the annual 'externalities budgets'/operating plans of each such enterprise, with constitutionally and legislatively ceded co-authority to do so, 'adjudicate-able' via the judiciary branch of social governance in cases of deadlock.

Arising therefrom — possibly, at first, as extra-constitutional "NGOs", prior to their full constitutional institutionalization, as extra-constitutional "NGOs" — we anticipate the accelerating emergence of local/municipal, state/provincial, regional, national, continental, and, eventually, global, associations of public directors.

All levels of these associations of public directors must be constitutionally-required to be base-elected, so that it is not the members of a more local-scale association that elect the members of the next-less-local-scale association.

It must be the combined base of all of the more local associations addressed by a given next-scale association that elect the members of that next-scale association.

The function of these associations is to coordinate externalities social management policy at 'meta-enterprise' levels.

We expect that these would increasingly constitute – at first, «de facto», and, later, by sovereign, popular institution and constitutional amendment, «de jure» — a fourth, 'econo-political', branch of government, in sustained 'quadruple-power' with «aufheben»-conserved/-transformed executive, legislative, and judicial branches, with checks-and-balances between every pair of these four branches.

A key effect of the actions of these associations would be a human-geographical 'de-abstractification' / 're-determination / -containment' of abstract capital; an «aufheben»-conserving /-negating '''real subsumption''' of the capital-equity or 'internality-equity' relation, its markets, and its '''market failures''', within the democratized relations of production of the generalized-equity-relation, including all of the new socio-ontological classes of 'non-internality-equity' emergent from their 'externality-equity' «arché».

The 'Intra-Duality' of the "Capital-Relation" and the Emergence therefrom of the Social-Relations-of-Production 'Socio-Ontology' of 'Generalized Equity': Some Conjectures Regarding 'Equitism'

An 'essence-ial' operation of the «Kapitals»-system, that it applies externally, to its surrounding pre-capitalist hinterland [as it converts that hinterland into new socio-geographical increments to itself, to its own geographical domain], as it does also internally, to its own already-converted internal terrain, is one of expropriation — expropriation of small-holder peasant producers on the land and of self-employed urban artisans, etc., to form/expand the wage-labour class; expropriation of smaller capitals by larger, expropriation of surplus-labor and of surplus-value, etc.

«Kapital» is also, 'essence-ially', an operation of bursting-asunder all barriers to the quanto-qualitative advance of social productivity [of the "social productive forces", cf. Marx].

As the «Kapital»-conversion of the pre-capital hinterland nears completion, as the «Kapitals»-system comes to surround the last remnants of the social-systemic '''other''' that once surrounded it, we move toward that moment in the history of the «Kapitals»-system in which that system will 'surround' and confront only itself worldwide.

That approaching [extended] historical moment means that the operations which that system hitherto applied to the predecessor social formations that 'environmented' it in the past – namely, the operations of expropriation and of social-barrier-dissolution — will be applied to the «Kapitals»-system itself, by the «Kapitals»-system itself, as its own only remaining human-social environment, in its final confrontation: in its confrontation with itself.

With regard to the expropriation operator, this would mean an expropriation of the expropriation [operation] itself, which operation is «Kapital»:

"What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e., its historical genesis, resolve itself into?

In so far as it is not immediate transformation of slaves and serfs into wage-labourers, and therefore a mere change of form, it only means the expropriation of the immediate producers, i.e., the dissolution of private property based on the labour of its owner. …

as soon as the capitalist mode of production stands on its own feet...the further expropriation of private proprietors takes a new form.

That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for himself, but the capitalist exploiting many labourers. This expropriation is accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself, by the centralisation of capital.

One capitalist always kills many.

Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-increasing scale, the cooperative form of the labour-process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of production by their use as the means of production of combined, socialised labour ['the objective socialization of the means of production' – anonymous], the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world-market, and, with this, the international character of the capitalist régime. ...

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.

Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

This integument is burst asunder.

The knell of capitalist private property sounds.

The expropriators are expropriated."

— Karl Marx; Capital (vol. I), Chapter XXXII, "Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation"; International Publishers (NY: 1967); pages 761-764; bold, italic, colored, and underlined emphasis added by anonymous]

Marx foresaw, in the Grundrisse, that, in this 'self-environment' or 'self-surroundment' and 'self-envelopment' of the «Kapitals»-system, it would find in its own nature a barrier to the further development of the social '''self-forces''' of self-expanding societal self-[re-]production, and act upon itself accordingly, unstoppably, whatever to the contrary its partisans and beneficiaries might wish:

"... capital has pushed beyond national boundaries and prejudices, beyond the deification of nature and the inherited, self-sufficient satisfaction of existing needs confined within well-defined bounds, and the reproduction of the traditional way of life.

It is destructive of all this, and permanently revolutionary, tearing down all obstacles that impede the development of the productive forces, the expansion of needs, the diversity of production and the exploitation and exchange of natural and intellectual forces.

But because capital sets up any such boundary as a limitation and is thus ideally over and beyond it, it does not in any way follow that it has really surmounted it, and since any such limitation contradicts its vocation, capitalist production moves in contradictions, which are constantly overcome, only to be, again, constantly re-established [and, on an ever-larger 'meta-fractal' scale – anonymous].

Still more so.

The universality towards which it is perpetually driving finds limitations in its own nature, which, at a certain stage of its development will make it appear as itself the greatest barrier to this tendency, leading thus to its own self-destruction."

— David McLellan; The Grundrisse, Karl Marx; Harper & Row (NY: 1971); pages 94-95

Vastly more needs to be said about the historical dynamics and 'meta-dynamics' of the «Kapitals»-system, and about the mechanisms and 'organisms' of its 'meta-finite self-conversion / self-bifurcation self-singularity', as especially about the immanent tendency of accumulating capital-value to de-value itself, and of the rate of capital value-accumulation to decelerate itself, both as expressions of the growth of the society-re-productive forces within capital.

However, the above-excerpted intimations must suffice for the present purpose.

Averting, via Social[-Relations] Revolution, the Otherwise Pre-Destined '''New Dark Age''' Denouement of Decadent Capitalism: Towards a Strategy for Humanity

The Fight for Human Liberty is Now a Life-and-Death Struggle Against Decadent Capitalism – Against the Unchecked Power of the Totalitarian Capitalist Plutocracy of the Advanced Capitalist Core of the World-Market System.

The «Kapitals»-systems of national and global political economy have engendered liberal political constitutions, with internal checks and balances limiting the abuse of political power, which have, as a result, proven relatively so successful at growing social productivity / '''the social forces of production''', that their economic and social success is now rapidly turning into its opposite — catastrophic economic, political, social failure.

Their economies have, at length, outgrown the power of their political constitutions, and of their exclusively political checks and balances, to avert the accumulation of unchecked power and the species-lethal abuse of that unchecked power, in the formation of a pro-totalitarian capitalist plutocracy.

Their market competition, which provides economic checks and balances limiting abuses in the pricing and quality of goods, services, and in customer service quality in general, becomes, and must become, successful competition.

Successful competition becomes, and must become, the [partial] negation of competition, namely, monopoly [or oligopolistic, etc., near-monopoly].

Thus, competition leads to and becomes its opposite, monopoly and oligopoly.

The process of the competition of capitals thus leads to the formation of agglomerations of capital so gargantuan that they can take over the mass media of public communication, and buy-out the political system — legislative, executive, and judicial; lock, stock, and barrel.

Thereby, the political checks and balances among those branches of the public, political government are obviated and subverted.

The houses of legislature become houses of prostitution.

The executive and judicial branches of government are, over time, likewise bought-out and prostituted.

Increasingly, only those candidates for public, political, elected office who sell themselves to the plutocracy can acquire the vast funding necessary to buy access to the plutocracy-dominated mass media sufficient to achieve electoral victory.

Thus, successful advanced capitalist democracies are characterized by a seemingly irresistible tendency to plutocratic totalitarian degeneration.

The horrific dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin, precisely because they arose in nations whose capitalist development was in some ways retarded, have provided a prevenient, disfigured prefigurement of the hellish future of demise that humanity faces in the further, advanced-decadence development of this plutocratic totalitarian self-degeneration of capitalism.

Only the addition of economic checks and balances can overcome this economic subversion of once-partially-effective but exclusively political checks and balances.

Only the emergence of political-economic democracy, of a democratically 'politicized' political economy, can check this tendency to plutocratic totalitarian political degeneration, a degeneration which has arisen from the economy; from the 'economic side' of the political-economy; from the economy's production of a prostitute-government, prostituted most-abjectly to the economic plutocracy.

The Capital Equity Stock Shares-Principles of 'Internality Equity' & the Capital-Governance Norm of Stockholder Democracy

The share-principle, the capital-equity-principle, the one-share-unit-of-capital-owned = one-vote-for-the-election-of-directors-to-the-board-of-directors governance principle of stockholder democracy immanent within the 'socio-ontological category' of capital, is a principle of economic-democratic enfranchisement for the owners of capital, but also a principle of total economic dis-enfranchisement for the non-owners of capital.

The principle of 'Equitism' outers the latent, immanent dual of that capital-principle, a principle of enfranchisement also for the non-owners of capital.

It does so in the form of the moral recognition and juridical formation, initially, of a new class of property-equities, that of 'externality-equities', in part via the "equity" tradition of 'precedentary', case-law jurisprudence, as well as from the generalized-equity-enabling 'Equitarian' constitutional amendments — amendments to be proposed in detail under separate cover.

. . .

The term 'Externality Equity' herein denotes a form of non-stockholder stakeholder equity which arises from principles extending those already extant and precedented in the "equity" tradition of case law.

It arises, in particular, from the principle that the ownership of capital, however legitimately acquired, does not convey to the owner the unlimited right to inflict harm and damage upon other citizens and upon society as a whole.

It arises also from the further principle that the best locus in which to adjudicate and mitigate the externalities generated by the operation of capitalist enterprises — the external costs or costs imposed upon third-parties whose interests are not represented in the traditional institutions of private capital governance — is the locus of their origination: the very heart of capital governance itself.

External, governmental regulatory bureaucracies, legislatively chartered and overseen, are subject to the plutocracy's bribery of the legislatures and to the "revolving door" bribes of later industry-employment offered to the regulating bureaucrats by the regulated industries.

Lawsuits, brought before the judiciary, against the personal and social damages inflicted by those industries, are generally too delayed, and too costly, for the citizen litigants, who face the ultra-deep-pockets of their plutocratic, mega-corporate adversaries.

Such exclusively litigious actions for redress are also exposed to the gradual corruption of the judiciary by the plutocracy's bribery that increasingly controls the legislature and the executive branches, which share the power to appoint the central judiciary.

On the other hand, nationalization of industry, and state-monopoly of all capital, threatens to resurrect the unchecked, absolute, absolutely-corrupt, and soon-totalitarian dictatorship of Stalinist or Fascist state-capitalist bureaucracies, and must therefore count as another non-solution, and as, in reality, either an acceleration of, or a prevenient attainment of, the very «telos» of the totalitarian «taxis» of advanced/decadent capital.

* The dictatorship of a state-bureaucratic ruling class, whose grip on power and whose tenuous ruling-class-collectivist economic de facto 'ownership' claim on the means of production is political-only, and totally vulnerable to political assault [unlike the case with a ruling class of private owners of capital] tends to totalitarianism as the only effective defense of its ruling power. It does so because any successful political challenge to such a ruling class would mean its political replacement, and thus its total loss of ruling power. If deposed politically, it is deposed totally. Political totalitarianism is thus the "natural" form of political and economic class self-defense for this kind of ruling class.

* The motive to multi-genocidal global totalitarianism of the capitalist plutocracy, formed in the core regions of advanced/decadent private-capital, is quite other than the motive described above. It arises with the decision of that plutocracy to reverse the historical growth of the human-social forces of production, as its only defense against its overthrow by the 'obsolescence depreciation' of its principal capital assets, and by the formation of an educated, tendentially prosperous, and therefore "ungovernable", "middle class" proletariat, which much-further growth of the productive forces would bring. This power-jeopardy of the advanced/decadent capitalist ruling class is epitomized, in particular, by the prospect, for this petroleum/banking plutocracy, of the advent of controlled nuclear fusion atomic power as a superior and, thus, oil-obsolescing alternative to its core power-asset in fossil-fuel-based molecular power. It is epitomized, in general, by the way that rising, global, "middle-class" levels of workers' living standards, health, education, and new, entrepreneurial wealth threaten the overthrow of this plutocracy's power to rule.

The Econo-Political Institutional Infrastructure of the Initial Phase of 'Externality-Equities' 'Equitism'

The 'Externality-Equities' initial phase of 'Equitism' envisions the constitutional-amendment provision and partially courts- and legislatures-regulated operation of 'bicameral' boards of directors in all capitalist enterprises of sufficient size and social impact, with a 'second house' of local-community-elected public directors in all local operating units of such enterprises.

These 'publics' boards' would have constitutionally- and legislatively-ceded authority over the 'externalities budgets', the 'quanto-qualitative', externalities-production local annual operating plans of these enterprises — thus representing, at the very heart of corporate governance, the 'externality-equities' owned collectively, in a collective property-rights, public property-rights, or social-property-rights application of the "Coase Theorem", by each such local-community's citizens, as public stakeholders, in virtue of this, their new and special kind of [social]-property right.

The traditional board of directors and its delegates, representing the ownership of 'internality-equities' by the traditional stockholders, would continue to have authority over the dollar-/other-denominated, financial annual operating plan.

Discrepancies between the two operating plans would have to be negotiated between the two "houses" in accord with the constitutionally and legislatively mandated rules, with constitutionally and legislatively prescribed and regulated judicial review and/or arbitration in the event of deadlock/negotiation-failure.

Any effort by the plutocracy to bribe the thousands of grass-roots public directors elected in local communities all across the landscape would face prohibitive costs and risks of exposure because of their vast multiplicity.

Such massive bribery would be rendered more difficult also by the base-level, the radically "town-hall"-, "grass-roots"-democracy-restorationist character of the institution of 'externality equities; by the fact that the locally-resident citizens eligible to be elected as public directors would be fighting to defend their families, their homes, their local communities, and their very lives — e.g., from local toxic pollution, lethal to the lives of their children and their other loved ones, produced, typically, by nearby capitalistic firms, or even produced by nearby 'stewardship-equity' producers-cooperatives, those in which human decency is outstripped by desire for monetary earnings [hopefully less typically] — in a way and from a vantage which would be very non-abstract, very direct and personal, compared to the vantage of the traditional long-distance central government legislator.

In any case, attempts by the plutocracy, and/or by their subordinate capitalist-class elements — elements technically termed 'the drooling greedies' in our social-scientific nomenclature — to buy-off the vast number of citizen-directors nationwide, and, eventually, worldwide, would break the bribery budgets of even the super-richest of the super-rich.

The Emergence of a Global 'Association of Public Directors'

It is expected that Associations of Public Directors, coordinating 'meta-enterprise' level policies at the local, regional, national, and eventually, at the international levels, will "naturally" tend to emerge over time, perhaps initially as a new kind of NGO [Non-Governmental Organization], and to eventually become institutionalized, 'constitutionalized', and 'electorialized'.

This will create a situation of "dual power" between the political-economic 'Associations of Associations' and the traditional, political branches of capitalist social governance.

But this should not be posed as one of unstable "dual power", leading inevitably to the monolithic "total victory" of one of the 'duals', and the "total annihilation"/"abstract negation" of the other.

Rather, it should be grasped as the basis for a new, fourth branch of government — of a partially democratized economic governance branch — and of an «aufheben» conservation/elevation/transformation of the earlier three branches of political government, leading to a government constituted by sustained quadruple power.

The new, democratic-economic governance branch would then exist in a higher, stabilized, ongoing — and partially conflicts-conserving, conflicts-appropriating, and conflicts-harnessing — dialectical 'uni-thesis', or complex unity, with the three earlier branches, thereby supplying economic checks and balances that the political branches cannot supply, and that help to block the path, otherwise irresistible, toward their total prostitution and plutocratic totalitarian degeneration.

'Containment' and '''Real [Self-]Subsumption''' of the "Capital-Relation" within the New Social Relation of 'Generalized Equity'

These Associations of Public Directors would supply a geography-based externalities 'container' and 'constrainer' for the many individual capitals operating within a given locality or region — capitals otherwise relatively '''abstracted''' and geographically indifferent; indifferent to the deleterious impacts of the externalities they generate upon their local portions of humanity.

These Associations would thus constitute the «monads», or units, of a 'Meta-Capital' entity, with each such «monad», or unit, of democratic-economic governance, 'made up out of' a heterogeneous multiplicity of "individual capitals" within its geographical locus-of-authority, in a democratic-jurisdictional sense.

These Associations would geo-demographically 'contain' and 'internalize/subsume' the many capitals operating within their geographical jurisdictions, in terms of, and placing checks and balances upon, the otherwise unlimited production of externalities which the combination of gargantuan oligopolist agglomerations of capital, their monopolized/prostituted mass media of communication, and their prostitute, increasingly '''plutocracy-owned''' political governments would otherwise unleash.

The "pure" private capital principle is a principle of private profit maximization at any human social/externality cost. It is limited, within the epoch of the «Kapitals»-system, only by political checks, i.e., by economically-exteriorized, government legislature/bureaucracy regulation, and by litigation-triggered judicial intervention, in a context where these branches of government are increasingly prostituted to a few, dominant agglomerations of internationalizing, plutocratic capital-ownership.

The Historical and Human-Social-Reproductive 'Terminality' of the 'Un-Contained' Capital-Principle

Thus, the capital principle, when in its full development, at zenith, in the sub-epoch of its decadence — if not integrated within a higher socio-economic principle, i.e., as it moves to become the organizing principle of global society as a whole; of the human-social-reproductive totality, will become a principle of monopolistic, omni-ravenous, socially-cannibalistic rapacity and parasitic, vampiric malignancy; of unchecked, "absolute", and therefore "absolutely corrupt" power, which will ravage and destroy the totality of human society, the human species, and the planetary biosphere as a whole.

That capital-principle, as personified in the capitalist plutocracy, so becomes in a vain defense of its power-prerogatives.

That plutocracy sees those prerogatives as mortally threatened by the further growth of the productive forces, as materialized in, and immanent in, the improvement of majority [proletarian] standards of living, including standards of [scientific and technological, etc.] education, world-wide, as required by the growing "technical composition" — of capital, and, therefore, of labor as well.

That plutocracy therefore, in the decadent phase of capitalist development, begins to systematically attack those standards.

It attacks those standards via the various 'socially-atavistic', "back-to-nature" ideologies it concocts, aiming to dupe the producing majority into acquiescence in a catastrophic, genocidal contraction of human social reproduction, as if "the survival of the biosphere" required such a massacre of humanity that, in reality, the plutocracy requires, in its vain attempt to hold onto its rapacious power.

The «Aufheben» Historical [Self-]Negation of the Capital-Relation as Predominant Social Relation of Production

This 'meta-model' . . . predicts no undialectical, abstract negation of the «Kapitals» social relations ontology.

It predicts no 'Jacobinoid-Leninoid' "absolute abolition"; no 'convolute' extinction/total de-manifestation, and no fantasy, utopian de-materialization of the "capital-relation".

The 'social praxis ontology' of the 'Raw Appropriation of Nature's product[ion]s', or of "predation", did not vanish with/was not abolished by the emergence of that of Goods / intra-tribal Gifts, although the former was partly '''subsumed''' by the latter.

The Goods/Gifts 'socio-ontology' did not vanish with/was not abolished by the emergence of that of Commodity barter [although the former was partly '''subsumed''' by the latter].

The Commodity 'socio-ontology' did not vanish with/was not abolished by the emergence of that of Money [although the former was partly '''subsumed''' by the latter].

'The Money social relation of production ontology' did not disappear with/was not abolished by the emergence of that of «Kapitals» [although the former was partly '''subsumed''' by the latter].

On the contrary —

The 'multi-Appropriation', or 'cross-Appropriation' socio-ontological category of '''human production of fit[ted]-for-humans-by-humans use-values from "raw" materials produced by extra-human Nature''', i.e., of human-Goods / intra-tribal-Gifts production . . . first emerged as merely a new «species» of the «genos»; of the 'human Appropriation of Nature's product[ion]s in "Raw"/virtually unimproved [for humans] form' «genos».

But this new ... «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ... «genos» «monads», or '''units''', of "Goods" — soon self-reproduced / out-grew the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ... «genos», at such a rate and to such an extent that the new ... «arithmos» has become, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animated it, ever since, a new «genos» «arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the '''Appropriation of extra-human Nature''' «genos».

Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' Goods «genos» [re-]acted back upon, 're-fluxed' upon, its predecessor «genos», initially only subsuming that predecessor «genos» '''formally''', by virtue of ... having become the new, 'meristemal', leading paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.

But, eventually, that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «genos»; it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' that predecessor «genos», yielding a "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in that of a tool-equipped [weapons-equipped -- M.D.] [i.e., '''Goods'''-equipped] hunting praxis, and in that of a tool-equipped digging/plant-appropriating/'''mining''' praxis, and in other such new human social phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by the "hybrid term"/'socio-ontological qualifier' ... .

Likewise, the 'exchange-use', or 'exchange-use-value' socio-ontological category of [pre-Money] Commodity barter, herein denoted by symbol1C, first emerged as merely a new «species» of the ["Goods" -- M.D.] «genos»; of the '''human production of fit[ted]-for-humans-by-humans use-values from "raw" materials produced by extra-human Nature''' «genos».

But this new, ... «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ... «monads», or '''units''', of 'barterables'; of '''Commodities''' — soon self-reproduced / out-grew the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ...["Goods" --M.D.] «genos», at such a rate and to such an extent that the new ... ["Commodities" -- M.D.] «arithmos» has become, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animated it, ever since, a new «genos» «arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the Goods, [use-]value «genos»; a new kind of [use-]value: '''exchange-[use-]value'''.

Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' Commodities «genos» [re-]acted back upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene», initially only subsuming those predecessor «gene» '''formally''', by virtue of ... [Commodities-barter -- M.D.] trading having become the new, 'meristemal', leading paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.

But, eventually, that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «gene»; it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene», yielding "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of the 'praxes' of barter-trading in "raw" goods, as well as in "finished" goods; in the emergence of intra-tribal barter, supplanting the intra-tribal '''Gift''' ethic and praxis, as extension of a barter praxis which, in its beginnings, was restricted to [predominantly war-like, or '''humans-hunting-other-/foreign-tribe/alien-humans'''] 'inter-tribal' relations, and in other such new human social phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by "hybrid terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as ... .

Again, the 'general-exchangeables', or 'general-equivalents' socio-ontological category of Money-mediated Commodity exchange, herein denoted by ..., first emerged as merely a new «species» of the ... '''barterable Commodity''' «genos» — as that new Commodity-«species» known, in the Marxian tradition, by the name '''Money-Commodity''' — a socio-ontological category which tends, over historical time, for 'praxical' reasons, to devolve upon a precious-metal Commodity, such as silver, or gold; the Commodity «species» of '''specie'''.

But this new, ... ["Money-Commodity" -- M.D.] «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ["Money-Commodity" -- M.D.] «monads», or '''units''', of 'gen-eral equivalents'; of the '''Money-Commodity''' — soon out-self-reproduced / out-grew the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ["baterable Commodity" -- M.D.] «genos», at such a rate and to such an extent that the new ... ["Money-Commodity" -- M.D.] «arithmos» has become, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animated it, ever since, a new «genos» «arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the Commodity exchange-[use-]value «genos».

Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' Monies «genos» [re-]acted back upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene», initially only subsuming those predecessor «gene» '''formally''', by virtue of ...[Money -- M.D.]-mediated circulation of Commodities having become the new, 'meristemal', leading paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.

But, eventually, that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «gene»; it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene», yielding "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of the 'praxes' of the sale of "raw" extractions from extra-human Nature in exchange for Money, instead of via barter, as well as the exchange of "finished" goods for Money; in the emergence of "dues" & "tithes" and / '''redistributive Gifting"' of Monies to the temple/state, in the emergence of intra-tribal Money-mediated exchange of Commodities, at least partially supplanting the earlier-emergent intra-tribal barter praxis, of inter-tribal, inter-city-state, etc., tributes "paid" in Money form, as well as in "Commodities" forms, and in other such new human social phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by "hybrid terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as . . . .

Finally, to-date, the 'Money-Making-More-Money', or 'auto-catalytic exchange-value' socio-ontological category of «Kapitals», herein denoted by . . ., first emerged as merely a new «species» of the ... [Money-mediated Circulation of Commodities -- M.D.] «genos»; of the '''universal-equivalent Money''' «genos» — as the circulation-based, non-production-based, quasi-parasitic Money-«species» known theoretically, in the Marxian tradition, as the "'antediluvian «species» of Capital'" — e.g., as '''merchants' money-capital''' and as '''usurers money-capital".

But this new, ... [«Kapitals» -- M.D.] «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ...[«Kapitals» -- M.D.] «monads», or '''units''', of '''Money-Capitals''' — soon self-reproduced / out-grew the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ... [Monies -- M.D.] «genos», at such a rate and to such an extent that the new ...[«Kapitals» -- M.D.] «arithmos» has become, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animate it, ever since, a new «genos» «arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the Monies exchange-value «genos».

Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' «Kapitals» «genos» [re-]acted back upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene», initially only subsuming those predecessor «gene» '''formally''', by virtue of ...[«Kapitals» -- M.D.]-mediated, mercantile, Money-buying and Money-selling of '''Commodity-Capital''', and the extraction of ['''usurious''' rates of] interest as the "price" for borrowing Money/mercantile Capital, having become the new, leading, 'meristemal' paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.

But, eventually, that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «gene»; it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene», yielding "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of the 'praxes' of the mercantile offering of products produced in non-household production facilities, owned and provisioned by merchant/manufacturer capitalists, buying labor-capability as '''just another''' Commodity-supply for their production facilities, from labor-capability sellers/'''alienators''', just as they bought, as Commodities, raw materials and tools for those same production facilities, from other merchant/manufacturer capitalists; in the emergence of 'praxes' of the production of "raw" extractions from extra-human Nature as Commodity-Capital on the same basis, by merchant/manufacturer capitalists, instead of by, e.g., family-producers, seeking merely supplementary Money for their own consumption-needs, needs not met by their own household production directly, but not seeking self-expanding «Kapital», ever-expanding via profit, by means of exchange of their '''mere''' Commodities for Money, and in other such new human social phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by "hybrid terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as ... .

Therefore, we also expect that, immediately after its irruption from out of ...[the <<Kapitals arithmos>> -- M.D.], that the new «species» of equity of the social-relations of production ontology of 'generalized equity', denoted herein by ..., will enter into a "formal subsumption" of the entire predecessor, «Kapitals»-subsumed ... 'socio-ontology', due to its new, ...[Generalized Equity -- M.D.] 'social-relations logic' having become the new leading, 'meristemal' paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.

However, with time, later, we expect this new, now ...[Generalized -- M.D.] «genos» of '''generalized equity''', developing as a new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different 'gen'-eralization of the «Kapital»-equity «genos», to '''really''' subsume all of its predecessor «gene», especially the «Kapital»-subsumed «gene»; to largely '''appropriate'' and '''hybridize with''' those predecessor «gene», yielding "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as epitomized by the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation "hybrid term"/'socio-ontological qualifier' for the 'culminant' socio-ontological category, ... .

The latter denotes the 'real subsumption' of the entire, decadent, '''real domination of «Kapital»''', «Kapitals»-system by the social relation of production of 'gen-eralized equity', as denoted by ...:

...

That is, this ... 'meta-model' anticipates, in continuity with all of these earlier 'meta-evolutionary' and 'meta-system' transitions identified in this 'meta-model', the dialectical, «aufheben» 'annulment-cum-elevation-cum-conservation' of the "capital-relation", via an appropriate 'containment' of, or 'self-internalization' by, and [self-]subsumption / "real domination" of Capital within, the 'meta-monadologically' higher social principle of 'Generalized Equity', as sketched above.

The Emergence of a Fourth, Economic Branch of Econo-Political Democratic Social Governance, in Sustained Quadruple Power with the Earlier Three

This 'meta-model' envisions the retention and conservation / transformation of the three traditional branches of political government, into a complex, conflictual, and conflicts-conserving unity of sustained quadruple-power with, and vis-a-vis, the new, 'economic-democratic' fourth branch, thus yet further generalizing the stabilized, conflicts-conserving, checks-and-balances delivering complex unity of the earlier-emerged, three, political branches.

It also envisions the subordination, but not the absolute dissolution, of the capital-principle.

Thus, is the plutocratic, oligopoly/monopoly-capital-principle expected to be blocked, by popular power, from any longer attempting to organize, and to subjugate, the social totality.

A higher and democratic, humanistic principle of social ordering supersedes Capital in that role: the principle of 'Generalized Equity'.

But the latter principle allows the capital-principle, e.g., of price-competition and competition for customer-adherence, to persist in operation where it best orchestrates the extant hybridization of genomic and '''phenomic''' human nature, providing vitally needed economic checks & balances that private-monopoly and state-monopoly economic governance so devastatingly lack. . . . [this connects to another of the proposed "Generalized Equity" institutions, that named "Citizen Stewardship Equity"]"

[emphasis added by M.D.]

For full article, see --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

Edited February 18, 2010 by MiguelD

[SolarPlexus]

I think capitalism does lead into an imperialistic meta-nazism.... communism is theoretically perfect but inapplicable (!) because its in conflict with human nature... whats the right way to go?

I donno something third? Something without money and religion, yes... anarcho-socialism? Nah it cannot be expressed in current terms...

as far the thread is concerned, i essentially agree with miguel...

Edited February 18, 2010 by SolarPlexus

[MiguelD]

A THIRD WAY

World Politics Forum Participants,

The "Third Way" that makes sense to me is called anti-State-Capitalist "Equitism", or "Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY".

For the Details, see --

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Capitalism-David-Schweickart/dp/0813331137/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266541912&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/After-Capitalism-New-Critical-Theory/dp/0742512991/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266541912&sr=1-1

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Mission/Mission.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.htm

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

I think capitalism does lead into an imperialistic meta-nazism.... communism is theoretically perfect but inapplicable (!) because its in conflict with human nature... whats the right way to go?

I donno something third? Something without money and religion, yes... anarcho-socialism? Nah it cannot be expressed in current terms...

as far the thread is concerned, i essentially agree with miguel...

[MiguelD]

CITIZEN BIRTHRIGHT EQUITY: A KEY ELEMENT OF THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY SOLUTION TO THE UNFOLDING GLOBAL CRISIS OF HUMANITY.

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

"CITIZEN BIRTHRIGHT EQUITY

The principle of the social generalization, or universalization, of equity-holding, to all social citizens, and of an 'onto-dynamasis' beyond the kinds of such equity presently in existence, to birth new kinds, e.g., 'externality equities' — the heart and «arché» of the E ['dialectogram' symbol denoting the successor Social System of "Generalized Equity" -- M.D.] 'socio-onto' — does not end with the public-democratic 'property-ization' of 'externality equities'.

It extends as well to the social generalization of the proprietorship of, initially, 'internality equities' by all citizens, by means of a policy of 'Citizen Birthright Equity Endowment' in an amended, constitutionalized Bill of Social Rights & Responsibilities.

This new «species» of equity also flows from principles of 'social risk management', of 'economic-system-risk' management and of 'social self-investment'.

It means that every child born into 'Equitarian Society', is granted, «ipso jure», at birth, by virtue of fundamental constitutional right, a tax-funded equal sum of capital equity stock, comprised of small portions of all publicly-issued stocks, bonds, and other capital assets meeting legislated standards, and of extant social property income streams as well, designed as an integrated social/individual risk management trust-fund, and a unified, 'omni-portable', globally-portable "social safety net", for every new-born citizen.

This new constitutional right, in this sense, makes every baby born into human society a '''trust-fund baby'''.

It means per capita citizen net assets, in place of today's plutocracy-mandated, malignantly growing per capita citizen liabilities; the share of each citizen in plutocracy-incurred public debt [a way by which the plutocratic minority finances its destructive imperial enterprises and their required '''permanent war economy''' via taxes, as legislated forced consumptions, foisted upon the non-super-rich majority].

* Moral Hazard Mitigations. The mitigation of the massive "moral hazard" potential of this social policy will require that there be many "strings attached", restricting the uses of this public investment in each citizen-person by that person, and by various parents or guardians and heirs of that person at various stages of that person's expected life-history, and beyond. Each social equity-endowment must therefore remain a partially-social property; an only-partially-individual/-personal/-private property.

* Principles of Universalized Inheritance and of Universalized Birth-Advantage. This policy of 'universal advantage' / 'universal inheritance' / 'social inheritance' — of the universalization of capital/equity ownership / social property ownership / inheritance as a partial remedy for the viciously self-amplifying hyper-inequalities of plutocratic-minority capital-advantage and capital-privilege; a '''social risk management''' policy designed to achieve an «aufheben»-negation of some of the socially-recognized systemic risks of the predecessor, «Kapitals»-system — envisions a unification of the fragmented and otherwise inadequate «Kapitals»-system epoch legacy of "social safety net" provisions.

If not, in the beginning, birthing every baby with a golden or even a silver spoon in her or his mouth, every baby would be born with at least a stainless steel "spoon in its mouth".

These unified provisions would address the management of the risk of the "contained" but also "retained" elements of capital-profit-based economics, plus of the new, Equitarian system, as well as of the universal risks to which human social life is heir.

Society's collective portion of equal initial social investment in each individual citizen, by social right of birth [as distinct from the presently persisting unequal family investment in / inheritance of each child, resulting from, e.g., the unequal fruits of achievements by that child's ancestors], and the partially age-based and tests-of-knowledge-based, constitutionally- and legislatively-restricted allocation of each child's birth-right equity trust-fund, would be legislatively designed to meet the expected, standard costs of foreseeable life-history events, including —

* Education — primary school, trade-school, college, professional, '''life-long learning''', etc.;

* Medical Care — for "normal", plus at least some classes of "catastrophic", illness;

* Home Purchase — down-payment for young adult first home acquisition;

* Entrepreneurship — public "venture capital" funding for first [below legal-threshold employee-count for stewardship-equity requirements] small business, or producers-cooperative launch;

* Unemployment Insurance — for cases of economic downturns, producers-cooperative bankruptcies, etc.;

* Re-Training — redressing 'techno-depreciation', or technological 'obsolescence-depreciation', of '''human capital''', or the 'human skill-negentropy' for stewardship-equity-holding producers;

* Retirement — partially replacing plutocracy-gutted pension, employer 401(k), IRA, & Social Security programs.

Costs of social failures by the individual — e.g., of welfare livelihood-support in the cases of extended, perhaps non-economic-downturn-induced unemployment, or of incarceration costs in cases of criminal conviction — would be borne out of this birthright equity fund, up to its near-exhaustion, thus also forming a further dis-incentive to such failures. [Economic downturns may continue to occur, irregularly, during the period of the '''formal domination''', or '''formal subsumption''', of the capital social-relation-of-production by the rest of the emergent social-relation-of-production of 'generalized equity', although any immanent social processes described in terms of a '''social law''' of such downturns is expected to be increasingly 'socio-ontologically' distinct from the immanent social process which drives the iterated irruption of escalating periods of contracted social reproduction within the [sub-]epoch of the '''real domination''' of, and of the more or less exclusive social rule of, the "capital-relation"].

This unification, with each citizen as cost-concerned customer, given the voucher-like personal stake of each citizen in the conservation, and expansion, of the principal of each's birthright-equity social trust-fund, would 're-marketize' social welfare provision, and 're-competitivize' the pricing of medical and other social welfare services, and, thus, the exercise of cost-efficiency and cost-discipline in their production, de-incenting the "take it for granted" moral hazard of present, "free-of-charge", state-bureaucracy-produced, or state-bureaucracy-subsidized, '''social welfare''' provisions.

The policy of 'Citizen Birthright Equity Endowment' raises questions of the disposition of such endowments in the event of termination of pregnancy, averting the birth of a new citizen, by right of the mother.

Parents must not be allowed to '''profit''' monetarily from their children's social trust-funds, though, even so, the financial worries and burdens of parenthood would be significantly mitigated by this policy, even countervailing against the extreme amplification of the "demographic transition" presently evident, in part, in advanced capitalist nations' growing tendency toward negative rates of human population growth.

The 'Citizen Birthright Equity' policy would not constitute a direct financial incentive to never abort a fetus.

However, the high social valuation of each and every life implicit in this policy suggests a certain resolution of the prevailing "right-of-choice" versus "right-of-life" social conundrum, a conundrum which presently forms an apparent antinomy, but which we see, rather, as yet another dialectical self-antithesis or 'self-duality' within the prevailing social concept of right.

This 'intra-duality' has been opportunistically exploited, manipulated, and amplified — in anti-dialectical, rigid, frozen, "either-vs.-or" fashion — by the 'Meta-Nazi' plutocracy's 'ideological engineering' operations, so as to foster and reinforce the protracted social strife of both sides of a diametrically opposed, antagonistic, "irreconcilable" social antithesis, as yet one further tool for the 'Meta-Nazis' ideology-based divide-and-conquer subjugation of the majority — the 'producers-class' — public. ...".

[emphases added by M. D.]

For full article, see --

http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm

Regards,

Miguel