A Natural Law of Social Evolution

[MedicTJ]

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

Or, maybe we can't sustain the world's population regardless of the government?

If we could magically use the entire above-water land mass of the earth to grow crops, it STILL wouldn't produce enough food to feed the current population. That's not speculation, that is FACT.

Put in any government you like. It's still not going to change anything unless the global population is, at the very LEAST, half of what it is now...and even THEN it would still be a struggle to feed people.

[SlimJim22]

Or, maybe we can't sustain the world's population regardless of the government?

If we could magically use the entire above-water land mass of the earth to grow crops, it STILL wouldn't produce enough food to feed the current population. That's not speculation, that is FACT.

Put in any government you like. It's still not going to change anything unless the global population is, at the very LEAST, half of what it is now...and even THEN it would still be a struggle to feed people.

Repairing those rice paddies in the Phillipines would be a good start. I agree that popoulation is a problem but using natural fertilzers rather than dumping excrement in oceans would also help the overall picture. With all our advances in science I find it appalling that more cannot be done.

[MiguelD]

HYPOTHESES: IN RESPONSE TO THE DEMENTED & DESPICABLE COMMENT BELOW

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESES: The Comments below are believed only by the most abject brainwashees of the Rockefeller Plutocracy.

The Rockefellers have paid lots to buy this brainwashing! --

http://www.point-of-departure.org/Point-Of-Departure/ClarificationsArchive/RockeNaziFaction/W_RockeNaziFaction-n1.htm

The real problem for the Rockefeller Plutocracy -- because they fear the "Techno-Depreciation" of their power -- is [Of Course!] PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY TELL US IS THE PROBLEM! -- is the high potential productivity of modern industry and agriculture, potentially drastically lowering the cost of living for we, "their peons", who those Plutocrats wish, therefore, to de-industrialize, de-educate, and re-serf-ify, including via the Global Depression II that they have just arranged. That's one of the key reasons why they had their prostituted governments paying farmers, all over the "First World", NOT to grow food, for decades.

The real problem, from the point of view of the ruling Plutocracy, is that productivity is already so high, and growing, that it creates radical lowering of the cost of living, "excess capacity" for production, and techno-depreciation of their concentrated fixed capital base in the petroleum industry, and elsewhere.

From the point of view of the rest of us, that productivity, and that potential for that productivity to skyrocket itself further, and to there drastically lower our costs of living, and hence burgeon our life-opportunities, is a vast blessing -- a blessing of which that ruling Plutocracy is determined to deprive us forever, along with destroying Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, for all of us alive today, and for our unborn children, who that Plutocracy is determined never to allow to be born!

The U.S. Post-Civil War "techno-deflation", when the prices of most categories of industrially produced goods declined for decades -- in our generations' terms, as if our experience with the drop in computer and other consumer electronics products' prices SUDDENLY applied to ALMOST ALL products' prices -- scared them ****-less, as they watched their latest gigantic fixed capital concentrations depreciate at an accelerating pace through rapid technological obsolescence.

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

That led the Rockefeller-Morgan-Rothschild-... Plutocracy to impose the Panic of 1907, to help "justify" what they next, also by further chicanery and assassination, foisted on America, the Federal Reserve, in 1913 -- a Privately-Owned Bank dictating our ever-increasing public indebtedness indebtedness to its private owners [guess who?], and imposing inflation to make us pay for the "Techno-Depreciation" of their industrial Fixed Capital -- and the Federal Income Tax, again by subterfuge, in 1913 -- to make us pay the costs of their system of servant-dictatorships in what became, under those servant-dictatorships, the "Third World", to hold back industrialization there -- and World War I, in 1914.

See Graph, Figure 1. --

http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/TheTotalityIsBeautiful/TheTotalityIsBeautiful.htm

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

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.htm

Next, the Rockefeller-Morgan-Rothschild-... Plutocracy engineered Global Great Depression I, in the 1930s, which helped enable them to install their Fascist or Nazi State-Capitalist servant-dictatorships all over the "First World" as well.

Unfortunately for them, servant-dictator Hitler, whom they had hired to destroy both Germany and Russia in a war of Germany against Russia, because they feared that a German-Russian alliance could overthrow their world rule, turned "Franken-dictator" on them, and they had to mobilize both Americans and Russians to save their sorry asses from their own Frankenstein-monster.

http://www.point-of-departure.org/Point-Of-Departure/ClarificationsArchive/HitlerAndRockeNazis/W_HitlerAndRockeNazis-n1.htm

Since the fall of their most recent rivals -- the Stalinist State-Capitalist dictatorship of the USSR/Eastern Europe -- the Rockefeller-Morgan-Rothschild-... Plutocracts have felt free to impose full-scale de-industrialization, drastic lowering of Middle Class incomes, and re-impoverishment of the Middle Class, in the U.S., and, now, a new Global Depression, their replay of their 1930s attempt to install State-Capitalist dictatorships, under their thumbs, world-wide.

If you are like many Americans, not to mention Europeans, and others, this Plutocracy has just stolen --

* Your Life savings and/or pension

* Your job

* Your home

* Your childrens' futures

-- via their bubble-engineered "Global Great Depression II".

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS9-BubbleEngineering/GS9-BubbleEngineering.htm

Have you noticed?

Have you noticed that they have declared War on America? War on the Global Middle Class? War on Humanity?

Watch, witness, their evil darkness -- the Rocke-Nazis' New Dark Age -- spread across the face of the land --

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RrP9qJmjIsA

Scholars like Julian Simon have long ago refuted the Rockefeller/Malthusian hogwash about "the population being too big for agriculture to feed".

http://www.amazon.com/Population-Matters-Resources-Environment-Immigration/dp/1560008954/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267766974&sr=1-3

Of course, the Rockefellers have had Julian Simon, and others like him, murdered, for their efforts, by their staff hitmen.

http://www.global-samizdat.org/Global-Samizdat/GS12-WhoFundsEcologism/GS12-WhoFundsEcologism.htm

Don't believe demoralized and brainwashed, brain-dead and ethically-dead individuals who claim that "People Are Pollution", and who aid, abet, and promote Global Multi-Genocide, and other Crimes Against Humanity, on the spurious grounds that "humanity is not productive enough to support its population", when, in fact, the ruling plutocracy is now imposing State-Capitalist, police-state totalitarianism, and Global Multi-Genocide, using [pseudo-]"Ecology" and other excuses, out of their livid fear that our productivity will -- without their interference -- become so high as to techno-depreciate their core capital-holdings, the basis of their power, and, thus, to overthrow their rule!

Regards,

Miguel

Or, maybe we can't sustain the world's population regardless of the government?

If we could magically use the entire above-water land mass of the earth to grow crops, it STILL wouldn't produce enough food to feed the current population. That's not speculation, that is FACT.

Put in any government you like. It's still not going to change anything unless the global population is, at the very LEAST, half of what it is now...and even THEN it would still be a struggle to feed people.

[SlimJim22]

I've noticed Miguel. The problem is has it gone too far already. They are accountable to noone and were the people to react through democracy I have no doubt they would engineer Armageddon and keep up the pretense of plausable deniability.

IMO the road back is long and full of obstructions that need to be removed. To stop the centralization of power and resources would help but the world acts like a tightly run cartel from what you've said. Oligopoly, the Kinked supply curve is prone to corruption and price fixing just as you have explained. Artificially high profits to line the pockets of the elite is far from ideal but they have the world by the proverbials.

[MiguelD]

Dear SlimJim22,

You're right. Tough situation.

The North American Colonists in 1776 had it even tougher.

They were up against the British Empire, the most powerful and vicious imperialism that the world had ever seen up to that time.

Anybody who opposed that imperialism, and whom the British could get their hand on, was "drawn and quartered".

Didn't stop those colonists.

A mere "rag-tag of farmers with blunderbuses" defeated, and evicted from North America, the greatest superpower of all time up to their time.

What are we, chopped liver?

Regards,

Miguel

I've noticed Miguel. The problem is has it gone too far already. They are accountable to noone and were the people to react through democracy I have no doubt they would engineer Armageddon and keep up the pretense of plausable deniability.

IMO the road back is long and full of obstructions that need to be removed. To stop the centralization of power and resources would help but the world acts like a tightly run cartel from what you've said. Oligopoly, the Kinked supply curve is prone to corruption and price fixing just as you have explained. Artificially high profits to line the pockets of the elite is far from ideal but they have the world by the proverbials.

[SlimJim22]

Dear SlimJim22,

You're right. Tough situation.

The North American Colonists in 1776 had it even tougher.

They were up against the British Empire, the most powerful and vicious imperialism that the world had ever seen up to that time.

Anybody who opposed that imperialism, and whom the British could get their hand on, was "drawn and quartered".

Didn't stop those colonists.

A mere "rag-tag of farmers with blunderbuses" defeated, and evicted from North America, the greatest superpower of all time up to their time.

What are we, chopped liver?

Regards,

Miguel

When outmanned and outgunned what do you do? Refuse to fight and pose a very different kind of war. A war of culture and ideas rather than one of violence. It's this sort of peace preaching that could get a guy shot if he's not careful.

The pen is mightier than the sword but the net is even more pwoerful again. More so than the ballot box anyway in future perhaps.

Regards

SlimJim

[MiguelD]

Dear SlimJim,

Good points.

The people of the former Soviet Union and of Eastern Europe did manage to overthrow their dictatorships, mostly non-violently, and from inside full-fledged police states.

They did it, in part, via <<samizdat>> [clandestine circulation of self-published manuscripts].

Surely, we, with our still more favorable conditions, can at least match what they accomplished!

Regards,

Miguel

When outmanned and outgunned what do you do? Refuse to fight and pose a very different kind of war. A war of culture and ideas rather than one of violence. It's this sort of peace preaching that could get a guy shot if he's not careful.

The pen is mightier than the sword but the net is even more pwoerful again. More so than the ballot box anyway in future perhaps.

Regards

SlimJim

[SolarPlexus]

Miguel does samizdat basically mean pamphlet-circulation?

[MiguelD]

Dear SolarPlexus,

Yes -- clandestine circulation of self-published pamphlets, books, xeroxes, mimeos, and even of handwritten manuscripts, in the context of a police-state dictatorship that attempts to censor all public, and private, communication.

Regards,

Miguel

Miguel does samizdat basically mean pamphlet-circulation?

[MiguelD]

REFORM VS. REVOLUTION

Dear World Politics Forum Members,

HYPOTHESIS ON THE SOLUTION TO THE 'REFORM # REVOLUTION' CONTRADICTION: To posit "reform" and "revolution" as two absolutely separate and opposed processes is an example of the most crippling kind of UN-dialectical thinking.

Since such thinking is UN-dialectical -- and since actuality IS dialectical -- such thinking leads to the most abject failures in practice.

There can be no "revolution" which is absolutely disconnected with its historical, and recent, past; which is an absolute re-beginning of the world, from scratch: there can be no "revolution" which does not involve elements of the "reform" of the past.

The concept of "absolute revolution" is a delusory abstraction, a figment of the imagination, "absolutely" impossible as an actuality.

Such thinking about revolution makes revolution a <<utopia>> -- a "nowhere" -- a place of which it must be said that "you can never get there from here."

Likewise, there can be no "reform" that does not contain the possibility -- and that does not increase the probability, however minimally -- of triggering a "point of no return" for and to the old social system; of triggering a revolutionary transition.

That is why ruling classes are so averse to reform, and, sometimes, why, by resisting even the merest reforms for too long, and by means too brutal, they may precipitate revolution anyway -- by trying to forestall reform.

The key to successful revolution today, it seems to me, is to locate the embryo of the new, successor system to capitalism, within the present, predecessor system of that successor system; within the Capital-relation as the present, predominate "social relation or production", to use Marx's term.

Having located that embryo, it should then be possible to chart a path of successively accessible reforms, which, if that path is followed, will lead to a revolutionary "point of no return", and to a supercession of the capitalist system, in a new, higher, better system of quantitatively AND QUALITATIVELY EXPANDING human societal self-reproduction.

However, to be able to locate the embryo of the new system within the old, one has to have an inkling -- indeed, a relatively concrete vision -- of what that new system must look like.

The legacy left by Marx and Engels, in terms of envisioning the successor system to the capital-system, are not very helpful in that regard, in any detail.

The legacy left by Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ceaucescu, etc., etc., <<ad nauseam>>, is a very detailed legacy of a NON-successor to capitalism, of totalitarian, police-state dictatorship and terror by the state-bureaucracy -- as substitute ruling-class for a missing, or stunted, private capitalist ruling-class, in areas peripheral to the core regions of the upsurge of industrialo capitalism; regions where the local private capitalist proto-ruling-class has been weakened by the local interventions of the more developed capitalist ruling classes of the capitalist core regions -- against the working class; a legacy of proto-STATE-CAPITALISM, not of true communism; not of the social system of "the associated producers" [Marx].

However, utilizing those few loci in the extant writings of Marx and Engels where they sketch the new social system that they hold can "lawfully" arise out of capitalism -- if we avoid the other alternative, "the mutual ruin of the contending classes" -- I claim as follows:

1. The embryo of the new system, the system of the realized DEMOCRATIC '''politicization''' of the capitalist political-economy; the embryo of Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, is located in the 'Capital-EQUITY' essence of the "Capital-relation" [Marx], the Capital-relation being the predominating social relation of production [Marx] of the system that is named after it, of the '''Capital[ist]-System''', i.e., that embryo is located in the principle of "Stockholder DEMOCRACY".

2. That "embryo" matures via "revolutionary reforms", reforms which change, incrementally, but qualitatively, the social relation of production of the Capital-system, by extending and expanding, generalizing, that embryo, of "STOCKholder Democracy", increasingly, into '"STAKEholder Democracy"'.

3. 'Workers' Capital' -- the capital of collectively self-employing workers, in worker-owned producers' cooperatives, which emerge within capitalism, as forms of the '"self-<<aufheben>> self-negation of capitalism still within capitalism"' [Marx] -- is a modification of the Capital-relation which also expresses and represents the embryonic form of the new social relation of production, of the successor system to capitalism, the system of "Free Association", or of "The Associated Producers".

4. The way to the new society, higher successor to capitalist society, is via a succession of legal, non-violent, constitutional reforms which GENERALIZE the Capital-Equity relation, and principle, of Stockholder ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, but NOT just quantitatively, e.g., by making every citizen a shareholder in the capital equity stock of capitalist corporations, but also QUALITATIVELY, via the constitutional 'institution-ization' of four new species -- NEW KINDS -- of Social, Economic, Citizen EQUITY social property rights, namely --

A. CITIZEN EXTERNALITY EQUITY;

B. CITIZEN BIRTHRIGHT EQUITY [this one is the most like a mere quantitative generalization of capital equity];

C. CITIZEN STEWARDSHIP EQUITY [this one grows the "embryo" represented by 'Workers' Capital' into a new social relation of production full-blown, superseding the Wage-labor Relation];

D. CITIZEN ALLOCATIONAL EQUITY.

The present, "capitalist anti-capitalist" ruling class will, of course, ideologically -- and violently -- resist even these non-violent reforms.

Their very resistance will educate a populist public, pressing for these reforms, to the need for a revolutionary re-constitution of capitalist society, into Equitarian society -- into that real "communist society" that Marx and Engels, and that the whole history of the real communist movement, meant by that term; NOT into totalitarian, multi-genocidal STATE CAPITALIST dictatorship, which is, in fact, the self-destination and self-destiny of UN-resisted decadent capitalism, and of its decadent ruling class -- e.g., the U. S. ruling class and society of today.

For details, see --

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

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

Regards,

Miguel

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

[SlimJim22]

You sure know your stuff Miguel. When I was reading it I was thinking frying pan or fire but you do indeed postulate a valid alternative. The problem is how to get there. There is definitely a chasm of unfairness in our wider society, the way over it would seems to be a bridge of reasonableness. We are in a world with no precendent but it's useful to look to history for some examples of what has happenned in the past.

Take 70's Britain or America as an example. In the US there was the Vietnam war which had the effect of galvinizing pubic opinion to an extent and it must have felt like the liberals one out, even if this was not really the case.

In Britain during the time of Thatcher there was a great deal of discontent from the miners and other unions but imo music was the driving force for change. The advent of punk arguably changed the outlook of the whole country. Anarchy was embraced as a catalyst for change. Anarchy does not mean immorality but opposition to the establishment.

The main problem we have today is that musics ability to act as a means of protest has been nullified. Society is gripped by fear on one hand and alcohol addiction on the other. The result is that only a small minority are able to pierce the music industry and that is subject to the approval of the major record labels. They dominate the mainstream media and control the messages that make it to the widest audience.

[SolarPlexus]

Dear SolarPlexus,

Yes -- clandestine circulation of self-published pamphlets, books, xeroxes, mimeos, and even of handwritten manuscripts, in the context of a police-state dictatorship that attempts to censor all public, and private, communication.

Ok i believe this is already underway? i mean some people are already doing it, yes? Anyway is samizdat the start we are looking for?

[SlimJim22]

Ok i believe this is already underway? i mean some people are already doing it, yes? Anyway is samizdat the start we are looking for?

Raising awareness is paramount but mind control has rendered large proportion of the population unable to see what's going on. I think you need to attack the beast at it's source. The beast has many tentacles and if you cut one another can still get you. You don't wanna give them an excuse by being an agitator but something can be done for sure.

[MiguelD]

<<SAMIZDAT>> ON STEROIDS

Conspiracies Forum Participants,

Dear SolarPlexus and SlimJim22,

Agreed, fighting the power of the plutocracy is a lot like Hercules fighting the Hydra: chop off one head, and two new heads appear in its place.

So, agreed, stop chopping at the separate heads, and go for the heart of the monster.

But the innermost heart of this monster is the susceptibility of the minds of most of us to the plutocracy's carefully crafted lies -- to their ideologies -- like to their lie that the source of all problems is that there are too many of US, so that 95%, or 99% of US must die to solve the world's problems, to "Save" the "Earth", etcetera, etBullS**ta, leaving the world to them.

Therefore, <<samizdat>> is a way to strike at the heart of this monster's power.

And: the internet can be <<samizdat>> ON STEROIDS; the super-<<samizdat>>!

Regards,

Miguel

P. S. Here is a link to a site called "Global Samizdat" --

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

This site says that it is open to anonymous contributions from around the world. Would you consider contributing some your <<samizdat>> thoughts, anonymously, there?

Raising awareness is paramount but mind control has rendered large proportion of the population unable to see what's going on. I think you need to attack the beast at it's source. The beast has many tentacles and if you cut one another can still get you. You don't wanna give them an excuse by being an agitator but something can be done for sure.

[MiguelD]

HYPOTHESES: GENESIS OF 'CAPITALIST ANTI-CAPITALISM' --

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESIS: The Ruling Capitalist Plutocracy of the "First World" Has Turned '''ANTI-Capitalist'''.

SUPPORT: Excerpts on "The Genesis of '''Capitalist Anti-Capitalism''' --

"The Genesis of the Core Plutocracy's 'Capitalist Anti-Capitalism'

The competition among capitals — plus, the struggle of the owners of capital to subjugate "their" labor force — stimulate technological advances in the methodologies and instrumentalities of capital-based commodity production.

The effect of these advances is to raise productivity.

Productivity is raised, for example:

* by producing more units of commodity-output in less time; and/or

* with the productive-consumption-of less/less-costly units of direct-labor; and/or

* with the productive-consumption-of less/less-costly units of other inputs;

and thus, for any one, or for any combination, of the above, by producing the commodity output in question at a lower cost per unit-of-that-commodity-output.

This creates opportunities, e.g., to sell that output:

* with a higher profit-margin at the same price as the less technically advanced competition is charging; or

* to undersell that competition on price at the same profit-margin which that competition was garnering. [e1_3]

The actualization of such opportunities results in that [now "overpriced" and/or "un[der]profitable" -- M.D.] competition dying off; in that competition being absorbed into and/or being dissolved by the higher-productivity competitor, or in that competition adopting the same or a better technological advance.

This latter option assumes that those competitor-firms can so adopt, without going bankrupt, due to the incremental costs, incurred by them, for this adoption.

These technological advances become increasingly threatening to the wealth-binding and power-binding monetary-value-content of the hyper-concentrated capital-holdings of this plutocracy, as the balance of their capital-investment expenditures shifts relatively, but increasingly, toward "plant and equipment" expenditures, over-and-above wages-and-salaries expenditures, or living human-labor power expenditures.

These capital, plant, and equipment holdings of the plutocracy accumulate partly in the forms of directly-owned "plant and equipment" capital-assets, but also partly in the form of "capital equity stock" capital-assets, "corporate bond" capital-assets, "long term bank loan" capital-assets, etc., which simply represent the plutocracy's indirect ownership of such "plant and equipment" capital-assets.

This threat grows, as the proportion of wealth held by the plutocracy in these forms grows, and as the rate of technological advance accelerates in response to the profit-stimuli cited above, with advancing accumulation of capital-asset value.

As these technology-forms, incented by the capitals-system, advance, an ever-greater relative proportion of the physical mass of the physical assets used in plutocracy-owned industrial production takes these "plant and equipment" forms, vis-á-vis, the forms of the living human "socio-bio-mass" of the human work force.

Likewise, the monetary-value-mass of such "plant and equipment" — and the monetary-value-mass of its per-unit-of-output charges for "wear and tear", or "physical", depreciation-expense, included in the prices of the plutocracy's sold output — increasingly exceeds the monetary-value-mass of the wage-and-salary expenses also included in those prices.

This threat to the plutocracy's money-power grows because technological advances — concretized by competitors — increasingly tend to evaporate and vanish the capital-value of the plutocracy's "plant and equipment" holdings, due to technological, obsolescence depreciation.

Thus, the vulnerability of plutocracy-owned capital-assets to technological, obsolescence depreciation accelerates as that plutocracy's "plant and equipment" capital, and as capital's technology, both accumulate together.

Later, lower purchase-cost vintages, and/or technologically-superior vintages, of capital-value — newly-incarnated in such advantaged "plant and equipment" capital — massacre the capital-value of earlier, higher-cost, and/or technologically-inferior vintages.

As the rate of technological innovation accelerates, these later vintages perform this massacre long before those earlier capital-value vintages — now relatively disadvantaged — can be "amortized", via "normal", physical "wear and tear" depreciation-charges recouped from sales of their output.

That is, eventually, as capital-value accumulation progresses, the average period between technological advances in machinery-design becomes shorter than the average period of physical wear-and-tear depreciation of that machinery, as a result of the accelerating rate of technological change.

Thereafter, competing new vintages perform this monetary-value massacre on the obsolete vintages long before the capital-value of the obsolete vintages can be recovered, together with an adequate, positive "return on" their investment.

That recovery of value would have been achieved only if the output of these capital-value production-assets were successfully sold at prices which covered this physically "used up" capital-value.

Once the average '''technological life''' of such "plant and equipment" capital becomes shorter than the average '''physical life''' of that "plant and equipment" capital, this recovery fails, and "return on" investment becomes "loss on" investment.

Concomitantly, the preponderance of industrial operating-capital invested shifts, from taking the form of wages-and-salaries, to taking the form of capital "plant and equipment".

This shift in the preponderance of the monetary-value of capital investment from the wages-and-salaries side to the "plant and equipment" side, is itself a reflection of the technological gains in productivity that have been achieved.

Consider what happens, once this preponderance shift has occurred at the level of a given industry as-a-whole.

Competitive installation of new capital "plant and equipment", that is yet more productive still, tends to induce a monetary-value loss to capital, due to technological, obsolescence depreciation.

It also tends to induce monetary-value gains to capital, due to the per-unit-of-output savings of wages-and-salaries, and/or due to the per-unit-of-output savings of raw-and-auxiliary-materials' costs, that may result from this increased productivity.

However, once this preponderance shift has occurred, those technological, obsolescence depreciation losses tend to exceed those gains due to savings.

Thus, the net effect, at the industry level, of these countervailing gains-and-losses, both triggered by the same act of competitive installation of technologically-superior "plant and equipment", by competitors, is negative — is a negative profit overall [i.e., a net loss], and/or a negative increment to '''capital-value accumulation'''/"retained earnings" [i.e., a net reduction to accumulated capital-value].

For example, the invention and implementation of fusion-power reactors, say, ones fueled by water, would more-or-less rapidly technologically-depreciate, to near-zero, the entire oil "plant and equipment" capital-assets owned by the global petroleum/finance plutocracy, were that plutocracy ever to permit such a technological advance to "see the light of day".

Hypothesis I: The Two Phases of the History of the Global System of Capital(s)

A reversal, an historical turning point, eventually arises for the global capitals-system as a whole — a turning point from the progressive to the increasingly retrogressive reign of the global system of capitals, and of the capital-based plutocracy.

This turning point arrives when the transient capital-value gains to that plutocracy, no longer exceed, "in the net", on average, the capital-value losses to that plutocracy, such that both the gains and the losses are due to a single causative process: "the growth of the social forces of production", i.e., the growth of productivity.

The gains result from temporary increments to the plutocracy's profitability, due to reductions in the costs (per unit of the commodity-output), of the labor, and of the other ingredients, required for the production of that commodity-output.

These cost reductions express technological productivity gains in monetary terms.

These gains accrue to the plutocracy via installed advances in technological productivity, embodied in their newer vintages of capital "plant and equipment".

These losses arise due to the exposure of the plutocracy's businesses to their competitors' installations of superior new vintages of productivity-advancing capital "plant and equipment".

These resulting increments to the plutocracy's losses, arise due to the competition-enforced "premature" scrapping of the plutocracy's older-vintage capital "plant and equipment" assets.

These losses result from scrapping capital "plant and equipment" assets before the normal time-span of their "wear and tear" depreciation, or physical depreciation, has ensued.

Thus, these losses arise due to the scrapping of "plant and equipment" assets, before the cost of those capital-assets has been "amortized" and recovered via the depreciation charges included in the prices of their sold commodity output.

Therefore, all these losses result from the technological-depreciation, or productivity-gain-induced depreciation, of such of the plutocracy's capital "plant and equipment" assets as are confronted with competitor-installation of superior vintages of capital "plant and equipment" assets.

This is especially true in the case of the installation of superior such later vintages by new entrant competitors, who do not share the legacy that the older entrants may share, of, for example, 50-year loans taken out to finance the purchase of the earlier, now-inferior vintages.

The "old entrant" competitors must still bear the costs of paying the contractual debt-service on those old-vintages' loans, despite the fact that those old vintages have been taken out of service and scrapped.

The "old entrant" competitors must also bear the costs of paying the contractual debt-service on any loans needed to finance their purchase of the new vintages, which these "old entrants" are forced to install by competition from the new entrants, who launched with the newest vintage "plant and equipment".

Thus, the profitability potential, and the '''competitivity''', of the "old entrants" is impaired relative to that of new entrant(s), even after the "old entrants" have scrapped the old-vintage equipment, and installed the new.

The core plutocracy comprises, by definition, the owners of the most concentrated, most consolidated, most centralized portions of world-market-system core industrial and financial capital-assets.

Their continual exposure to competition from technologically superior "plant and equipment", installed by rivals, and/or by new entrants, and the net losses to their fixed capital, and to their profit-returns on that fixed capital, that such exposure increasingly entails, after this historical turning point, increasingly threatens the economic basis — the predominant capital-ownership basis, and the predominant money control basis — of the socio-political power of this plutocracy.

This turning point can be characterized as that of a turn or shift in the ratio of the capital-value of "fixed capital" ("plant and equipment", which is exposed to capital losses due to 'techno-depreciation') divided by the capital-value of "circulating capital", for core world-market-system industrial capital.

"Circulating capital" includes:

* the physical, wear and tear "depreciation" charges;

* the wages costs; and,

* the other "ingredients costs" or other "inputs costs".

These "circulate" in the commodity output offered, on the market, for sale.

This output, "circulating capital", also thus embodies the "gains" to profitability, as "savings" to "input costs", due to technological productivity gains [i.e., due to reductions in the "unit cost" of the product-output -- M.D.].

This fixed-capital-to-circulating-capital ratio thus measures the proportion of exposure, the '''cross-section''' of vulnerability, to 'techno-depreciation', of world-market-system core industrial capital.

This ratio turns or shifts from magnitudes which are less than 1 (i.e., with circulating capital value, in the denominator, preponderating), to magnitudes which are greater than 1 (i.e., with fixed capital value, in the numerator, preponderating), for world-market-system core industrial capital [with forward time; with the progress of industrial productivity -- M.D.].

This process of competition-enforced, productivity-gain-induced, net-loss depreciation — of "obsolescence depreciation", "moral depreciation" [quoting Marx -- M.D.], "technological depreciation", or 'techno-depreciation', for short — can generate (1) competition-driven 'techno-deflation' of the prices of the plutocracy's commodity output, and also (2) aperiodic write-downs of the "book-value(s)" of these capital-assets.

Hence also, the latter, can generate aperiodic loss-charges against the plutocracy's "retained earnings".

Both of these effects reduce the rate-of-return on the "historical or "original" value of the plutocracy's past, "sunk" capital investments, as a visible, "secular" trend over time.

Indeed, the accelerating growth of technological productivity did just that, in the U. S., in the immediate post-Civil War period, in the ~35-year 'Long Techno-Deflation', from 1865 to about 1900, i.e., in the period leading up to the "Great Panic" of 1907, followed by the imposition, by the plutocracy, of the "Federal Reserve System", and of the Federal Income Tax, in 1913, and the first world-wide war, starting in 1914.

For example, note the levels of prices and inflation from 1665 to 2005 [in the graph -- M.D.] below [e2]:

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.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.

[M.D.: See graph of this turning-point, slide 12 in --

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

]

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]

[ M.D.: --

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

]

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 [NB: Babbage is also the inventor of the stored-program computer -- M.D.] (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]

[ M.D. --

http://www.amazon.com/Economy-Machinery-Manufactures-Cambridge-Collection/dp/1108009107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268072065&sr=1-1

]

* 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 [! -- M.D.] to rip out and rebuild a three-month-old rolling mill when Schwab said he had discovered a better design." [e5]

[M. D. --

http://www.amazon.com/Carnegie-Business-Library-American-Biography/dp/0321432878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268072166&sr=1-1

]

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, [both] 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]

[M.D.:

]

"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]

[M.D. --

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

]

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".

[ M.D. --

http://www.amazon.com/FALLING-RATE-PROFIT-SIGNIFICANCE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY/dp/B000OA5SIA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227098752&sr=1-1

]

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 [in capital's decadent phase, once F/C > 1, in the "net" -- M.D.] 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."

[Emphases added by M.D.]

[For full article, see --

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

]

Regards,

Miguel

[SolarPlexus]

I think you need to attack the beast at it's source. The beast has many tentacles and if you cut one another can still get you.

Definitely man... cut off the snakes' head, and the body will die... its the only way yeah

fighting the power of the plutocracy is a lot like Hercules fighting the Hydra: chop off one head, and two new heads appear in its place.

haha a nice analogy

the internet can be <<samizdat>> ON STEROIDS; the super-<<samizdat>>!

Thats very true! Free information (the internet) might be the downfall of the plutocracy

P. S. Here is a link to a site called "Global Samizdat" --

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

This site says that it is open to anonymous contributions from around the world. Would you consider contributing some your <<samizdat>> thoughts, anonymously, there?

definitely, thanks for the link Miguel

[MiguelD]

SolarPlexus,

You're welcome!

Thanks for your responses!

Regards,

Miguel

Definitely man... cut off the snakes' head, and the body will die... its the only way yeah

haha a nice analogy

Thats very true! Free information (the internet) might be the downfall of the plutocracy

definitely, thanks for the link Miguel

[MiguelD]

HUMAN ANTI-HUMANISM

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

HYPOTHESES: ON THE GENESIS OF THE 'HUMAN ANTI-HUMANISM' OF THE RULING PLUTOCRACY OF LATE CAPITALISM

HYPOTHESIS: The Ruling Plutocracy is lawfully characterized, in the terminal phases of Self-Degenerating, Totalitarian, Multi-Genocidal [State-]Capitalism, not only by 'CAPITALIST ANTI-CAPITALISM', but also by 'HUMAN ANTI-HUMANISM', and by a "Humanocidal" commitment to "population reduction", via Global Multi-Genocide -- by a plan to "reduce" the global human population by 95% [cf. quote from Ted Turner].

ARGUMENT:

"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 [The Ruling Plutocracy of Late capitalism -- M.D.] would also have to drastically reverse the growth of human population worldwide — to '''eugenicize''' and "reduce" the global population of [to them -- M.D.] 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" [e.g., as their "servant-dictator" -- M.D.]. [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!

The 'Meta-Nazi' Plan

The core plutocracy's plan, in a nutshell, is to impoverish, enslave, and, finally, to exterminate you and your family, reducing world population by ~90%, to a level of population so low that, they believe, their rule can be secured in perpetuity, creating a new, and permanent, '''neo-feudal''' Dark Age [see "GS10: Meet the 'Meta-Nazis' Face-to-Face"]. [e19]

The perversion of the grass-roots anti-pollution movement, into the core-plutocracy-choreographed 'Soylent Green' "movement" of today, via years of massive funding from, and manipulation by, the plutocracy's foundations, into a progress-denying, anti-science, anti-technology, pro-negative-growth, "People Are Pollution", neo-Malthusian pro-humanocide movement, has been slated, by the plutocracy, to play a key role in providing pseudo-"ecological" excuses for their plan to impoverish, enslave, and exterminate you and your family — indeed, for their plan to murder of the majority of human race [see "GS12: Some Hypotheses Concerning the Lobby for Global Genocide"]. [e20]

The "principals" of the core plutocracy are well-described as 'Meta-Fascists', or 'Meta-Nazis', both because they are far more humanocidally vicious than mere Fascists, or mere Nazis, or mere Stalinists — their mere servants — but also because of their preferred mode of rule. They prefer to stay out of sight, to rule from behind the scenes, so that their individual identities are scarcely known to the public. They prefer to exercise their dominion through the visible agency of the police-state servant dictatorships that they finance into place, and otherwise put into place, in every nation that comes under their control.

The core plutocracy's preferred "division of labor", their "business model", and their "organization design" is fairly simple, "in principle". They keep their thumbs on their handful of servant-dictators. They let their servant-dictators keep their thumbs on every body else.

The plan of the core plutocracy, in their present, re-edition of their 1930s global depression scenario, is to institute their '''FINAL SOLUTION TO THE HUMANITY PROBLEM''' — their '''SOLUTION''' to THEIR problem with humanity's tendency to outgrow them, and to overthrow them — a '''FINAL SOLUTION''' for which Hitler's '''FINAL SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM''', and Stalin's Gulags, constituted mere "dress rehearsals".

Their '''SOLUTION''' is to turn the whole world into '''One Big Zimbabwe''' — into '''ONE BIG CONCENTRATION / EXTERMINATION CAMP''' [see "GS1: Towards A Strategy For Humanity"]. [e21]

Along their way to this '''FINAL SOLUTION''', the core plutocracy plans, first, to bankrupt and dismantle what little is left of the civilian industrial base of the United States, destroying what's left of the US Middle-Working Class in the process, while simultaneously crushing the Middle-Working Classes of the EU and the UK, and also pulverizing the nascent Middle Classes in China, India, Brazil, and worldwide, imposing '''Marshall Law''' military dictatorships — electronic-/nano-surveillance police states — everywhere.

They plan to reduce the US to the status of just another '''Banana Republic''', but without any bananas.

The US dollar paper money supply has been vastly expanded, both by the recent turning over of the U. S. taxpayers' Treasury to Wall Street — so that the architects of this economic collapse could continue with their multi-billion dollar annual bonuses and dividend payouts, while the rest of the citizenry implodes — and by the vast recent monetarily-expansive maneuvers of the Federal Reserve balance sheet.

It is planned to further expand that supply of '''fictitious money''' via the Obama fiscal stimulus package, mushrooming potential money-paper demand at the same time that real production, and real productivity — the supply of real goods — is collapsing in free fall fashion.

The Weimar Republic, with its legendary hyperinflation, was the preparatory phase for the core-plutocracy-orchestrated, 'Meta-Nazi'-orchestrated Nazi takeover in 1930s Germany.

This present explosion of paper dollars — given the influence of the US dollar on the world economy — will soon eventuate in a '''globalization''' of the Weimar hyperinflation phenomenon.

The coming 'Obama Dollar Bubble' will result in a worldwide 'Weimarization' of humanity, plus an accelerated, THIS TIME GLOBAL, de-indistrialization, preparatory to global dictatorship, bankrupting the US government, and national governments everywhere, and annihilating the purchasing power of the US dollar, collapsing its value to zero.

This bankrupting of the US Government, together with this 'zero-ization' of the US dollar, will give the 'Meta-Nazi' plutocracy the excuse — the excuse that they have sought for so long — to abolish the United States of America, to abolish the US Constitution, and to abolish its Bill of Rights — a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that, despite being so often honored only in the breach, have for long so obstructed the goals, and the much-preferred methods, of the core plutocracy.

Even those few who escaped the collapse of stock market asset values, and of home asset values, and kept their savings in "safe" money market, CD, and cash assets, will have their savings too reduced to nothing.

If this sounds to you like an implementation of mathematics professor, and "Unabomber", Ted Kaczynski's ideology — 'Unabomberism' — then you heard right [for more on the ideology of 'Unabomberism', see Kaczynski's manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future"]. [e21_1]

The trouble with Ted, from the point of view of the core plutocracy, was not that he swallowed — hook, line, and sinker — one variant of the pseudo-ecological, 'psycho-engineered' ideologies with which they have infected the corporate mass media worldwide, to provide excuses — convenient cover — for their real agenda; for their implementation of their "FINAL SOLUTION TO THE HUMANITY PROBLEM".

The trouble with Ted, for the core plutocracy, was that he got into their racket himself, as a small-time, independent operator, and as a "true-believer", merely-micro-mass-murderer, prematurely micro-implementing elements of their p[r]ogrom, and beginning to give it the public bad name that it so justly deserves.

The core plutocracy had to '''build a fire under''' their conventional police forces, and their FBI proto-secret-police, to put Ted out of business, '''pronto!'''.

They don't want any more '''two-bit''' amateurs '''getting in their way'''.

This is the core-plutocracy's '''SOLUTION''' to what they euphemistically call, for public consumption, the '''Ecology Crisis''' — i.e., their '''SOLUTION''' to the threat to their power to rule posed by any further progress of human science and technology: their plan to impoverish, thence to enslave, and thence to EXTERMINATE you and your family.

What can you do, now, to save yourself and your family — to save so many other families like yours?"

[Emphases ADDED by M. D.]

For full article, see --

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

Regards,

Miguel

[MiguelD]

'ANTI-MARXIAN MARXIANISM'

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

THE GENESIS OF THE CORE PLUTOCRACY's 'ANTI-MARXIAN MARXIANISM'

Lawfully, the Ruling Plutocracy of High-Capital-Concentration, High-Technodepreciation-Vulnerable, Late/Terminal Capitalism, will be characterized not only by (1) 'CAPITALIST ANTI-CAPITALISM', and (2) 'HUMAN ANTI-HUMANISM', as described herein in previous posts to this topic, but also by a perversion of the self-theory of human social self-evolution and of human-social self-meta-evolution / self-revolution that lawfully arises within the late ascendant phase of the Capitalist World System, and which, on this planet, emerged under the name of 'Marxian Theory' [as distinct from, and as opposed to, Leninist/Trotskyist//Stalinist/Maoist totalitarian State-Capitalism, in the former "Third World", masquerading as "Communism", which, for Marx and Engels, meant "Political-Economic Democracy", and which Marx and Engels expected to begin first in the "First World" of advanced/decadent Capitalism].

Therefore, by its Terran name, this third characteristic of the Core Plutocracy during, and defining, Capitalism's Terminal, Self-Degenerating Phase, is (3) 'ANTI-MARXIAN MARXIANISM' --

"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.

. . .

[Emphases added by M.D.]

For the full article, see --

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

Regards,

Miguel

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".

Edited March 13, 2010 by MiguelD

[MiguelD]

THE SOCIAL-UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

The Following article discusses the self-degenerating [State-]Capitalist Political Economy as a phenomenon of the human Phenome/Genome -- as a manifestation of Collective-Communal Human Psychology in its current stage of [arrested] development.

" Diagnosis: What's Wrong

The Social-Unconscious Mind

Part of our mission, in this section, is to help raise up, into the social consciousness of its readers, crucial aspects of the present '''social unconscious''', of the unconsciousness of the human behavior, of the human practices, of the human "praxis", by which we have brought ourselves into this Crisis, this Predicament.

This "social unconscious" consists of portions of our own social behavior, of our own social activity, of our own social practices — of our own "social praxis" — which are highly 'causative', highly consequential, but of which the social majority is, presently, deeply unaware, both as to our conduct of that "praxis", and as to the profound consequences that its action brings back around upon our lives.

That is, this "social unconscious" consists of the human action by which we have collectively delivered ourselves into the present Global Crisis of Humanity.

That is, the core of this "social unconscious" is also a key part of the action — of which we-present are all a part — by human society, back upon human society: the activity by which we semi-consciously continue and also grow our human social existence, the collective human activity which we name '''human society self-[re-]producing praxis'''.

These unconscious consequences arise, indeed, from our collective '''value(s)-system''', as collectively practiced: as we actually live it [not necessarily as we profess it].

The "Law" of "Value"

A unity of these unconscious consequences, in modern society, is what we will name '''the law of [political-economic] value'''.

Our purpose in this section is to analyze the human behavior — our collective behavior — which produces and reproduces this [un-legislated, "unwritten"] "social law", a "law" which operates as if it were a "law of nature", a "mechanical law" of unconscious being(s) — and which will continue to do so until "we" collectively awaken, as more-conscious, more-human, more-social beings than we have been.

Now, '''capital-value''', and '''value''' itself, are not "hard", "objective" substances, that exist wholly outside our skins, and outside our minds.

They are collective human mental habits / conventions; socio-cultural institutions.

They are, as we shall elaborate below, '''social relationships of [the present-day mode of human-life-]production''', and present-day '''forms of human, social intercourse'''.

We hold them as shared '''mental templates''', that we make effectively objectively real, by collectively and individually — and actively, behaviorally — projecting them onto the world outside our minds; collectively acting as if they are [objectively -- M.D.] "real".

This value is the continually-changing / -evolving total relationship, relation, 'relatio', or "ratio of interchange" — the social «verhaltnisse», for those of you who know the German language; the social «rapport» for those of you who know the French language — among all of our social-"good(s)"-producing activities, and their products, and, in particular, between waged/salaried labor as a whole, and capital property as a whole.

The Dimension of '''Consumer Value'''

For "consumers", "value" — as popularly discussed, as cited in commercial advertisements, etc. — is a relationship, a '''relation''', a 'relatio', a '''ratio of exchange''', which brings together "use-value" and "exchange-value" [money-price], into an expression of a '''complex unity''' between the two of them.

That is, the unit of measure of such a "value" metric is not simply pure dollars: it is a heterogeneous unit of measure.

This "value" is the ratio between the "use-value", the "utility", of a commodity offered to consumers for sale, and the money-price offered for the purchase of that same commodity: [utility divided by price]; [utility/price] [i.e., "utility over price" -- M.D.].

Such a ratio, evidently, should be "measured" in units of, say, [utils divided by dollars], "utils versus dollars", "utils per dollar", or [u/$], wherein "u" denotes '''utils''' as the unit of measure of this utility.

The lower the price [denominator], and the higher the utility [numerator], of the commodity offer, the greater is its "value" — the greater is the "value" of the offer — the greater is the magnitude of this [utility/price] ratio.

But that component unit of measure, in the '''compound unit[y]''' or '''complex unit[y]''', [u/$], that component unit of utility, "u", is problematic for us.

There are deep difficulties, for our prevailing «mentalité», in actually measuring "use-value", or "utility", in any universal way.

Therefore, the "values", in this sense, of different kinds of consumer commodities-offers cannot be readily compared.

It is hard to say, in any explicit way, that one consumer commodity offer has greater "value" than another, let alone by "how much" the "value" of one consumer commodity offer exceeds another.

This is hard for us to say, because the common unit of measure, shared by the numerators of all of the offer '''value ratios''', the [utility/price] ratios, of any pair of consumer commodity offers — the '''utils''' unit of measure, denoted above by u — is obscure, uncertain, 'inarticulable' for us, unknown to us: still deeply buried within the implicitudes of our shared, "social-unconscious mind".

The Dimension of '''Investor Value'''

For "investors", as opposed to "consumers" — i.e., for a growing percentage of our fellow "consumers", at least until the present collapse of investment "asset values" — "value" — "shareholder value", etc. — is popularly conceived of in terms of "yield".

This "yield" is the "ratio" — the 'relatio[n]' — between how much money a "capital asset" — a home, a rental property that we might purchase, a unit of capital equity stock in some "publicly-issued" joint-stock corporation, a corporate or government bond, etc. — is expected to "return" in the future, in future dollars "discounted" to a "present" [present "buying-power" -- M.D.] money magnitude, divided by the present money magnitude of the "cost" required to purchase ownership of that "asset" [and, hence, to purchase ownership of that asset's future "returns" -- M.D.]; the "price" of that "asset".

Once again, this "yield" is not measured in simple currency units — i.e., in "US dollars", or in "pounds sterling", or in "euros", or in "yen".

This "yield" is measured in units of, for example, '''[dollars versus dollars]''', "[dollars over dollars]", "[dollars divided by dollars]", [$/$], or [%], i.e., in "percent" units.

That is, the "yield" metric is supposedly a "dimensionless" metric, 'unit-ed' by a 'self-compared', 'self-opposed', 'self-contrasted', self-divided currency unit — $s divided by $s = $⁺¹ / $⁺¹= dollars to the positive first power divided by dollars to the positive first power = dollars to the positive first power multiplied by dollars to the negative first power = $^(+1-1)= $⁰ — a unit of "zeroth power", or "zeroth degree", i.e., a "percent" [ i.e., a percent-unit, a unit of percentage -- M.D.].

Notice how, in the units of this "yield-value", or "capital-value", ratio, in relation to the "consumer", "offer-value" ratio, the mysterious "u" unit in the numerator of the "offer-value" ratio is replaced by an, e.g., "$" unit in the numerator of the "capital-value" ratio — because, generally speaking, "money" names the highest conception of "universal use-value", or of "universal utility", that our present social '''inter-subjectivity''' is capable of explicitly, consciously expressing.

The "yield"-value of your "capital asset" — that is, of a money-measured asset that is expected to make more money than it cost; to "return" a "profit" — is the ratio of the 'presentized' magnitude ["Net Present Value", or "NPV"] of its expected future net money-returns to you, to [i.e., divided by -- M.D.] its present cost, its present price of purchase, to you:

(expected NPV of expected money returns divided by cost)[$/$] = (yield)[%] = ( NPV(r)/c )[%], with "r" standing for the expected future magnitude of the money-returns to you from the asset, and with "c" standing for the present cost to you of acquiring "ownership" of that asset.

'Pseudo-Subjectivity' and 'Pseudo-Objectivity'

Below, we're going to be using the words "subject"[-ivity] and "object"[-ivity], '''subject[-ness]''' and '''object[-ness]''', as per the meaning of these words in the context of the analysis of our written and spoken sentences: in terms of the "subject verb object" structure of our [sentential] language(s).

The sentential subject names the 'verb-source', the action-initiating, agent role for the process described by the sentence.

The sentential object names the [ev]ent[ity] performing the 'verb-target', action-receiving role for the process described by the sentence.

Once the '''social mind''' — the cultural '''inter-subject-ivity''', the minds of the social majority, of the preponderance of the human population of social individuals — is captured by this '''social gene''', this cultural '''meme''', of '''value-ing''', by this value-system of consumer commodity offer-"value", of '''exchange-"value''' and '''profit-"value''', i.e., of '''yield-"value''', then something about our society '''hardens'''.

Once this new '''inter-subjectivity''' becomes predominant within humanity, then these new human habits of "value-ing", of value-action, of value-behavior, "gel" and "congeal", into a 'pseudo-objectivity', one seemingly more solid than granite, one seemingly denser than stainless steel, one seemingly harder than a brick wall, and one whose "shape" is seemingly harder to re-shape than it is to change the "cut" of a diamond.

Once this social 'pseudo-objectivity' congeals, the recurrent "patterns", unintended "rules", or "laws", of '''value-dynamics'' that we will adduce herein — laws whose "trend" portends a decadent-phase totalitarian state-capitalist degeneration of ascendant-phase capitalist democracy, resulting in a catastrophic collapse of '''human social reproduction''' — become, as if, objective "laws", "natural laws", even "mechanical laws", enacted by human subjects become as if '''dead''', in-human objects.

Thereafter — after that congealing — it takes a profound transformation of our '''mutual subjectivity'''; of our '''inter-subjectivity''' — a deep change of the 'social unconscious mind', an irruptive rising into our '''inter-subjective''' conscience of previously socially-unconscious 'ideo-subjective material', one brought about by our traumatic experiences of the massive, massively adverse, and unintended [by us] consequences of that formerly unconscious material — to change our social "laws".

When just one of us tries, or when even a few of us try, to change our "value(s)"-in-practice — our value-ing behaviors — our efforts are typically swamped, drowned, and brought to nought, or brought to ruin, by the overwhelming momentum of everyone else continuing — still behaving, still 'value-ing' — in the same old way, in accord with the same old semi-conscious 'value-paradigm'.

Only in rare instances, can a new 'value-behavior', accordant with a new 'value-paradigm', irrupting locally within a small population of human beings, rapidly catalyze the adoption of this new behavioral paradigm by an expanding wake of other human beings, tidally rippling out in a wave of behavioral change, and of habit-change, throughout our 'socio-mental space', and our 'social-objective space', until the preponderant operating paradigm of our global society as a whole is transformed.

Such rare catalysis means that human social intersubjectivity adopts this new paradigm of daily-life action rapidly, as if all at once, in a way analogous to the way in which, in the process of "stellar [meta-]evolution", or 'stellar revolution' — for example, in the case of the stellar core "helium flash" — a star, which has exhausted [completely converted into core Helium], its former core Hydrogen fuel, so that is inner fire has become extinguished, and which has thus begun to collapse, due to its unopposed "self-gravitation", suddenly, as the '''squeeze''' of that collapse-implosion crosses a critical threshold, re-ignites, begins to burn that core Helium, that former "ash", and, as a consequence, abruptly leaves the Hydrogen-burning "stellar main sequence phase", and transitions to the '"Helium[-burning] stellar main sequence phase"', of its [meta-]evolution, becoming, in that process, a new kind of star, with qualitatively and quantitatively different dynamics. [e1]

Capital-value, and value itself, is not a "thing", an "object" wholly outside our minds, and wholly outside our skins.

It is more like a collective [de-][il-]lusion, that becomes real, that objectively characterizes our behavior, because we share it and communally practice it.

This "money-value" is partly subjective, partly an '''idea-object''', a 'psycho-historical material', though we tend to think of it, and act as if it were, a purely objective thing.

We "fetishize" value, "reify" value, "hypostatize" value, and "totemize" value, in effect worshipping it as if it were an entirely outer thing, wholly external to our '''subject-ivity''' or 'subject-ness'.

There is a hidden — occult, latent, unconscious — '''human-ism''' in the outwardly-expressed '''anti-human-ism''' of those among us who "value" only money, or who "value" only "capital" — only "money [that is / when it is] making more money".

If we "value" only money, because of what money can buy — by our '''value-ing''' only what money can buy — we are also, implicitly, unconsciously "value-ing" the human creativity and the human life-time that stands behind the '''good(s)''' that money buys; that creates (that/)those '''good(s)'''. [Thus, the "u" of the measure of "utility", for "me", is really "you": in an effectively social, or '''communal''', society, the measure of expanding utility for "me" is the new life-wealth created and added to our '''common-wealth''', each day, by "you" -- by all other person(s) of the communit[y](ies) in which "I" partake -- M.D.].

The Inverted World

By communally "fetishizing" and worshiping money-value/capital-value, we create, and enforce upon ourselves — consciously or not, intentionally or not — the "rules" and the "social laws" of "the law of value".

We induce an inversion of social subject(s) and social object(s), of social subjectivity and social objectivity.

We turn ourselves into 'pseudo-objects', and we turn the objects that we create, and the constructs by which we "measure" them — money[-value] and, especially, capital[-value] — into 'pseudo-subjects'. We make the world of capital, the social objectivity that we produce, and continually re-produce, into a 'pseudo-subjectivity', and we turn ourselves, the real subjects, into a 'pseudo-objectivity'.

The vast aggregation of our individual, daily '''value-ing''' actions creates an "invisible hand", indeed, an '''iron fist''', that rules over us almost as if it were a conscious, monarchical being, and that cancels out the intentions of our "visible hands" in our efforts to self-govern our own lives.

The real subjects and the real objects become inverted; mis-revolved; upside-down — "bass-ackwards".

We create, and daily re-create, an upside-down world, an inverted world, a perverted world, in which only dead things — that living people have created, and that only living people can create — have value, and in which living, potentially richness-creating people are abandoned by the rest of human society — are unemployed, homeless, miserable, starving, dying — are treated as if they were '''value-less'''; worthless.

The Inversion of the Inversion

True social revolution is not nihilistic violence, or violence employed in the effort of a particular party or "special interest group" to attain alienated power — unchecked, unaccountable, unlimited power over everyone else.

True "social revolution" is the "revolution of this revolution; the restorative revolution to this mis-revolution, the inversion of the inversion, that restores subjectivity to the real subjects, and that restores objectivity to the real objects — the return of subjectivity, by the real subjects, to the real subjects.

The whole story — the 'his-story' of so many 'his'-lives gone-by, and the 'her-story' of so many 'her'-lives gone by — of the history of the capital value(s)-system to-date, is a history of the semi-conscious struggle of humanity to overcome the "invisible hand" of its "law of value"; the struggle to replace that "invisible hand" with its own, collective, democratically-controlled '''visible hand'''; to bring the horrific side of the human, social consequences of our unconsciously-created "law of value" under conscious, human, collective, democratic regulation and control; to restore human [inter-]subjectivity to the 'subject role' by overcoming the 'pseudo-objectivity' into which our money-value-ing, capital-value-ing intersubjectivity has cast us. "

[Emphases added by M.D.]

Full article --

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

Regards,

Miguel

Edited March 14, 2010 by MiguelD

[keithisco]

THE SOCIAL-UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Dear World Politics Forum Participants,

The Following article discusses the self-degenerating [State-]Capitalist Political Economy as a phenomenon of the human Phenome/Genome -- as a manifestation of Collective-Communal Human Psychology in its current stage of [arrested] development.

" Diagnosis: What's Wrong

The Social-Unconscious Mind

Part of our mission, in this section, is to help raise up, into the social consciousness of its readers, crucial aspects of the present '''social unconscious''', of the unconsciousness of the human behavior, of the human practices, of the human "praxis", by which we have brought ourselves into this Crisis, this Predicament.

This "social unconscious" consists of portions of our own social behavior, of our own social activity, of our own social practices of our own "social praxis" which are highly 'causative', highly consequential, but of which the social majority is, presently, deeply unaware, both as to our conduct of that "praxis", and as to the profound consequences that its action brings back around upon our lives.

That is, this "social unconscious" consists of the human action by which we have collectively delivered ourselves into the present Global Crisis of Humanity.

That is, the core of this "social unconscious" is also a key part of the action of which we-present are all a part by human society, back upon human society: the activity by which we semi-consciously continue and also grow our human social existence, the collective human activity which we name '''human society self-[re-]producing praxis'''.

These unconscious consequences arise, indeed, from our collective '''value(s)-system''', as collectively practiced: as we actually live it [not necessarily as we profess it].

The "Law" of "Value"

A unity of these unconscious consequences, in modern society, is what we will name '''the law of [political-economic] value'''.

Our purpose in this section is to analyze the human behavior our collective behavior which produces and reproduces this [un-legislated, "unwritten"] "social law", a "law" which operates as if it were a "law of nature", a "mechanical law" of unconscious being(s) and which will continue to do so until "we" collectively awaken, as more-conscious, more-human, more-social beings than we have been.

Now, '''capital-value''', and '''value''' itself, are not "hard", "objective" substances, that exist wholly outside our skins, and outside our minds.

They are collective human mental habits / conventions; socio-cultural institutions.

They are, as we shall elaborate below, '''social relationships of [the present-day mode of human-life-]production''', and present-day '''forms of human, social intercourse'''.

We hold them as shared '''mental templates''', that we make effectively objectively real, by collectively and individually and actively, behaviorally projecting them onto the world outside our minds; collectively acting as if they are [objectively -- M.D.] "real".

This value is the continually-changing / -evolving total relationship, relation, 'relatio', or "ratio of interchange" the social «verhaltnisse», for those of you who know the German language; the social «rapport» for those of you who know the French language among all of our social-"good(s)"-producing activities, and their products, and, in particular, between waged/salaried labor as a whole, and capital property as a whole.

The Dimension of '''Consumer Value'''

For "consumers", "value" as popularly discussed, as cited in commercial advertisements, etc. is a relationship, a '''relation''', a 'relatio', a '''ratio of exchange''', which brings together "use-value" and "exchange-value" [money-price], into an expression of a '''complex unity''' between the two of them.

That is, the unit of measure of such a "value" metric is not simply pure dollars: it is a heterogeneous unit of measure.

This "value" is the ratio between the "use-value", the "utility", of a commodity offered to consumers for sale, and the money-price offered for the purchase of that same commodity: [utility divided by price]; [utility/price] [i.e., "utility over price" -- M.D.].

Such a ratio, evidently, should be "measured" in units of, say, [utils divided by dollars], "utils versus dollars", "utils per dollar", or [u/$], wherein "u" denotes '''utils''' as the unit of measure of this utility.

The lower the price [denominator], and the higher the utility [numerator], of the commodity offer, the greater is its "value" the greater is the "value" of the offer the greater is the magnitude of this [utility/price] ratio.

But that component unit of measure, in the '''compound unit[y]''' or '''complex unit[y]''', [u/$], that component unit of utility, "u", is problematic for us.

There are deep difficulties, for our prevailing «mentalité», in actually measuring "use-value", or "utility", in any universal way.

Therefore, the "values", in this sense, of different kinds of consumer commodities-offers cannot be readily compared.

It is hard to say, in any explicit way, that one consumer commodity offer has greater "value" than another, let alone by "how much" the "value" of one consumer commodity offer exceeds another.

This is hard for us to say, because the common unit of measure, shared by the numerators of all of the offer '''value ratios''', the [utility/price] ratios, of any pair of consumer commodity offers the '''utils''' unit of measure, denoted above by u is obscure, uncertain, 'inarticulable' for us, unknown to us: still deeply buried within the implicitudes of our shared, "social-unconscious mind".

The Dimension of '''Investor Value'''

For "investors", as opposed to "consumers" i.e., for a growing percentage of our fellow "consumers", at least until the present collapse of investment "asset values" "value" "shareholder value", etc. is popularly conceived of in terms of "yield".

This "yield" is the "ratio" the 'relatio[n]' between how much money a "capital asset" a home, a rental property that we might purchase, a unit of capital equity stock in some "publicly-issued" joint-stock corporation, a corporate or government bond, etc. is expected to "return" in the future, in future dollars "discounted" to a "present" [present "buying-power" -- M.D.] money magnitude, divided by the present money magnitude of the "cost" required to purchase ownership of that "asset" [and, hence, to purchase ownership of that asset's future "returns" -- M.D.]; the "price" of that "asset".

Once again, this "yield" is not measured in simple currency units i.e., in "US dollars", or in "pounds sterling", or in "euros", or in "yen".

This "yield" is measured in units of, for example, '''[dollars versus dollars]''', "[dollars over dollars]", "[dollars divided by dollars]", [$/$], or [%], i.e., in "percent" units.

That is, the "yield" metric is supposedly a "dimensionless" metric, 'unit-ed' by a 'self-compared', 'self-opposed', 'self-contrasted', self-divided currency unit $s divided by $s = $⁺¹ / $⁺¹= dollars to the positive first power divided by dollars to the positive first power = dollars to the positive first power multiplied by dollars to the negative first power = $^(+1-1)= $⁰ a unit of "zeroth power", or "zeroth degree", i.e., a "percent" [ i.e., a percent-unit, a unit of percentage -- M.D.].

Notice how, in the units of this "yield-value", or "capital-value", ratio, in relation to the "consumer", "offer-value" ratio, the mysterious "u" unit in the numerator of the "offer-value" ratio is replaced by an, e.g., "$" unit in the numerator of the "capital-value" ratio because, generally speaking, "money" names the highest conception of "universal use-value", or of "universal utility", that our present social '''inter-subjectivity''' is capable of explicitly, consciously expressing.

The "yield"-value of your "capital asset" that is, of a money-measured asset that is expected to make more money than it cost; to "return" a "profit" is the ratio of the 'presentized' magnitude ["Net Present Value", or "NPV"] of its expected future net money-returns to you, to [i.e., divided by -- M.D.] its present cost, its present price of purchase, to you:

(expected NPV of expected money returns divided by cost)[$/$] = (yield)[%] = ( NPV(r)/c )[%], with "r" standing for the expected future magnitude of the money-returns to you from the asset, and with "c" standing for the present cost to you of acquiring "ownership" of that asset.

'Pseudo-Subjectivity' and 'Pseudo-Objectivity'

Below, we're going to be using the words "subject"[-ivity] and "object"[-ivity], '''subject[-ness]''' and '''object[-ness]''', as per the meaning of these words in the context of the analysis of our written and spoken sentences: in terms of the "subject verb object" structure of our [sentential] language(s).

The sentential subject names the 'verb-source', the action-initiating, agent role for the process described by the sentence.

The sentential object names the [ev]ent[ity] performing the 'verb-target', action-receiving role for the process described by the sentence.

Once the '''social mind''' the cultural '''inter-subject-ivity''', the minds of the social majority, of the preponderance of the human population of social individuals is captured by this '''social gene''', this cultural '''meme''', of '''value-ing''', by this value-system of consumer commodity offer-"value", of '''exchange-"value''' and '''profit-"value''', i.e., of '''yield-"value''', then something about our society '''hardens'''.

Once this new '''inter-subjectivity''' becomes predominant within humanity, then these new human habits of "value-ing", of value-action, of value-behavior, "gel" and "congeal", into a 'pseudo-objectivity', one seemingly more solid than granite, one seemingly denser than stainless steel, one seemingly harder than a brick wall, and one whose "shape" is seemingly harder to re-shape than it is to change the "cut" of a diamond.

Once this social 'pseudo-objectivity' congeals, the recurrent "patterns", unintended "rules", or "laws", of '''value-dynamics'' that we will adduce herein laws whose "trend" portends a decadent-phase totalitarian state-capitalist degeneration of ascendant-phase capitalist democracy, resulting in a catastrophic collapse of '''human social reproduction''' become, as if, objective "laws", "natural laws", even "mechanical laws", enacted by human subjects become as if '''dead''', in-human objects.

Thereafter after that congealing it takes a profound transformation of our '''mutual subjectivity'''; of our '''inter-subjectivity''' a deep change of the 'social unconscious mind', an irruptive rising into our '''inter-subjective''' conscience of previously socially-unconscious 'ideo-subjective material', one brought about by our traumatic experiences of the massive, massively adverse, and unintended [by us] consequences of that formerly unconscious material to change our social "laws".

When just one of us tries, or when even a few of us try, to change our "value(s)"-in-practice our value-ing behaviors our efforts are typically swamped, drowned, and brought to nought, or brought to ruin, by the overwhelming momentum of everyone else continuing still behaving, still 'value-ing' in the same old way, in accord with the same old semi-conscious 'value-paradigm'.

Only in rare instances, can a new 'value-behavior', accordant with a new 'value-paradigm', irrupting locally within a small population of human beings, rapidly catalyze the adoption of this new behavioral paradigm by an expanding wake of other human beings, tidally rippling out in a wave of behavioral change, and of habit-change, throughout our 'socio-mental space', and our 'social-objective space', until the preponderant operating paradigm of our global society as a whole is transformed.

Such rare catalysis means that human social intersubjectivity adopts this new paradigm of daily-life action rapidly, as if all at once, in a way analogous to the way in which, in the process of "stellar [meta-]evolution", or 'stellar revolution' for example, in the case of the stellar core "helium flash" a star, which has exhausted [completely converted into core Helium], its former core Hydrogen fuel, so that is inner fire has become extinguished, and which has thus begun to collapse, due to its unopposed "self-gravitation", suddenly, as the '''squeeze''' of that collapse-implosion crosses a critical threshold, re-ignites, begins to burn that core Helium, that former "ash", and, as a consequence, abruptly leaves the Hydrogen-burning "stellar main sequence phase", and transitions to the '"Helium[-burning] stellar main sequence phase"', of its [meta-]evolution, becoming, in that process, a new kind of star, with qualitatively and quantitatively different dynamics. [e1]

Capital-value, and value itself, is not a "thing", an "object" wholly outside our minds, and wholly outside our skins.

It is more like a collective [de-][il-]lusion, that becomes real, that objectively characterizes our behavior, because we share it and communally practice it.

This "money-value" is partly subjective, partly an '''idea-object''', a 'psycho-historical material', though we tend to think of it, and act as if it were, a purely objective thing.

We "fetishize" value, "reify" value, "hypostatize" value, and "totemize" value, in effect worshipping it as if it were an entirely outer thing, wholly external to our '''subject-ivity''' or 'subject-ness'.

There is a hidden occult, latent, unconscious '''human-ism''' in the outwardly-expressed '''anti-human-ism''' of those among us who "value" only money, or who "value" only "capital" only "money [that is / when it is] making more money".

If we "value" only money, because of what money can buy by our '''value-ing''' only what money can buy we are also, implicitly, unconsciously "value-ing" the human creativity and the human life-time that stands behind the '''good(s)''' that money buys; that creates (that/)those '''good(s)'''. [Thus, the "u" of the measure of "utility", for "me", is really "you": in an effectively social, or '''communal''', society, the measure of expanding utility for "me" is the new life-wealth created and added to our '''common-wealth''', each day, by "you" -- by all other person(s) of the communit[y](ies) in which "I" partake -- M.D.].

The Inverted World

By communally "fetishizing" and worshiping money-value/capital-value, we create, and enforce upon ourselves consciously or not, intentionally or not the "rules" and the "social laws" of "the law of value".

We induce an inversion of social subject(s) and social object(s), of social subjectivity and social objectivity.

We turn ourselves into 'pseudo-objects', and we turn the objects that we create, and the constructs by which we "measure" them money[-value] and, especially, capital[-value] into 'pseudo-subjects'. We make the world of capital, the social objectivity that we produce, and continually re-produce, into a 'pseudo-subjectivity', and we turn ourselves, the real subjects, into a 'pseudo-objectivity'.

The vast aggregation of our individual, daily '''value-ing''' actions creates an "invisible hand", indeed, an '''iron fist''', that rules over us almost as if it were a conscious, monarchical being, and that cancels out the intentions of our "visible hands" in our efforts to self-govern our own lives.

The real subjects and the real objects become inverted; mis-revolved; upside-down "bass-ackwards".

We create, and daily re-create, an upside-down world, an inverted world, a perverted world, in which only dead things that living people have created, and that only living people can create have value, and in which living, potentially richness-creating people are abandoned by the rest of human society are unemployed, homeless, miserable, starving, dying are treated as if they were '''value-less'''; worthless.

The Inversion of the Inversion

True social revolution is not nihilistic violence, or violence employed in the effort of a particular party or "special interest group" to attain alienated power unchecked, unaccountable, unlimited power over everyone else.

True "social revolution" is the "revolution of this revolution; the restorative revolution to this mis-revolution, the inversion of the inversion, that restores subjectivity to the real subjects, and that restores objectivity to the real objects the return of subjectivity, by the real subjects, to the real subjects.

The whole story the 'his-story' of so many 'his'-lives gone-by, and the 'her-story' of so many 'her'-lives gone by of the history of the capital value(s)-system to-date, is a history of the semi-conscious struggle of humanity to overcome the "invisible hand" of its "law of value"; the struggle to replace that "invisible hand" with its own, collective, democratically-controlled '''visible hand'''; to bring the horrific side of the human, social consequences of our unconsciously-created "law of value" under conscious, human, collective, democratic regulation and control; to restore human [inter-]subjectivity to the 'subject role' by overcoming the 'pseudo-objectivity' into which our money-value-ing, capital-value-ing intersubjectivity has cast us. "

[Emphases added by M.D.]

Full article --

http://www.equitism....dyAndRemedy.htm

Regards,

Miguel

If I never read such "self - important", nonsensical, and underwhelming drivel as propounded here then i will consider myself fortunate. The prose employed is self-defeating because it does not employ any rational, logical, or even co-herent basis. It is so full of self-important hyperbole as to make it incomprehensible. 99.9% of the grammatical structure makes no sense, and therefore is just a cynical attempt to make the OP sound important.... unfortunately it seems ONLY to make himself feel important, as though he really has something to offer to us.

We had a word for such self-important proponents of drivel in Uni, "PSEUDO"!!!

If I wished to wrap up anything I wanted to say in words so illogical, in statements so unbound with logic or reason, then i could do so - but then, I would sound just as foolish. IMO

Edited March 18, 2010 by keithisco

[MiguelD]

Keithisco,

The extremity of your denunciation is matched only by the relentless contentlessness of your expression of that denunciation.

Simply calling names, like "drivel", is itself sheer drivel; simply chanting "[il]logical", and "[ir]rational]", like a broken record, does not make it so, and does not advance one whit toward proving your "charges" true.

If you have nothing more substantive to offer than such kindergarten name-slinging, why waste our time here?

Instead, why not find a sandbox to pee in, just like -- and along with -- others of your ilk?

Miguel

If I never read such "self - important", nonsensical, and underwhelming drivel as propounded here then i will consider myself fortunate. The prose employed is self-defeating because it does not employ any rational, logical, or even co-herent basis. It is so full of self-important hyperbole as to make it incomprehensible. 99.9% of the grammatical structure makes no sense, and therefore is just a cynical attempt to make the OP sound important.... unfortunately it seems ONLY to make himself feel important, as though he really has something to offer to us.

We had a word for such self-important proponents of drivel in Uni, "PSEUDO"!!!

If I wished to wrap up anything I wanted to say in words so illogical, in statements so unbound with logic or reason, then i could do so - but then, I would sound just as foolish. IMO

[grass hopper]

Very interesting Miguel thankyou.

How do you really get people to take notice in this age of information overload, spam culture, apathy amongst the young, the hard working middle classes who struggle to juggle work and family and pay the bills. Take for example the bankers bonuses issue. The people have just accepted that all bonuses should be paid as 'they have worked so hard for it'!!

[grass hopper]

Very interesting Miguel thankyou.

How do you really get people to take notice in this age of information overload, spam culture, apathy amongst the young, the hard working middle classes who struggle to juggle work and family and pay the bills. Take for example the bankers bonuses issue. The people have just accepted that all bonuses should be paid as 'they have worked so hard for it'!!

Sorry was meant to continue with...

Also how can this be explained to the ordinary person in terms that they can understand (user friendly) and at the same time for them to still understand the concept. The language and form that you are using is quite 'technical'.

Obviously before explaining in simple understandable terms the proposed changes, I would have thought that concrete evidence of the 'current operating model' would need to be put forward.

It's a tough challenge to change things, even small things in peoples lives are difficult to change and the older people get the less inclined they are to take kindly to it. Not to mention that the more outwardly 'comfortable' people feel with their lives the less inclined they are to want to break the pattern.

It would be interesting to read your response on this

G

[MiguelD]

PLUTOCRACY FEELS COMPELLED TO DESTROY [Y]OUR "COMFORT", IMPOSE "HELL ON EARTH"

Dear Grass Hopper,

Excellent questions!

Difficult questions -- difficult theoretically; even more difficult practically, reaching even to the very crux of humanity's present jeopardy and predicament!

HYPOTHESES IN RESPONSE TO YOUR QUERIES. The realization of humanity's peril, by humanity, will not arise evenly throughout our global society, but in waves, which will be able to spread in some -- smaller -- parts of our global species before these waves of realization will be able to spread in other -- larger -- parts.

Some parts of us will be able to comprehend the direness, and what is behind it, before others.

Those who will be able to communicate to, or within, the early-realizer segments, may not be able to communicate beyond the boundaries of those early-realizer segments.

But others, situated closest, in "social space", to the boundaries of those early-realizer segments, may catch an understanding that will enable them to find a new language for that understanding, a new language that will be effective in communicating our peril to larger such segments, to the next segments able to understand their -- and our -- global jeopardy.

As to the "outward comfort" that you mention, The deliberate and accelerating destruction of our "outward comfort" -- by the machinations of the 'Meta-Malthusian', "People Are Pollution", "Capitalist Anti-Capitalist", "Human Anti-Humanist", and "Anti-Marxian Marxianist" Ruling Plutocracy -- by the Rockefeller-Morgan-Rothschild-... Plutocracy -- will be a major driving force of those widening waves of realization of our "construct a successor system to the self-destroying [state-]capital-ist system or be murdered" situation.

The real Karl Marx -- the greatest scientist, and '''collective-psychology historian''', of human society that Terran human society has so far produced -- like the fictional Hari Seldon in Asimov's Foundation novels, foresaw our present predicament, in the writing which is the most central, fundamental, and pivotal record of his social-scientific and psychohistorical discoveries, the "Grundrisse" [Foundation] of his Immanent Critique of the Political Economy of the presently dominant, and human history-determining, social relation of production, the Capital-Relation [the Wage-Labor-Relation].

Few know of this writing, of course, because neither the Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, etc. false claimants to Marx's legacy, nor the Rockefeller's, et al., want you to know about these discoveries and predictions.

Among much else, Marx had this to say in that work about our situation: "The growing incompatibility between the productive development of society and its hitherto existing relations of production expresses itself in bitter contradictions, crises, spasms. The violent destruction of capital, not by relations external to it, but rather as a condition of its self-preservation, is the most striking form in which advice is given it to be gone and to give room to a higher state of social production". [pp. 749-750].

The present "Global Great Depression II" -- the present global political-economic crisis -- is not an accident, and it is not yet over: far from it. It will yet destroy the "comfort" of the global majority of humanity -- "outward" and "inward" as well -- and, this time around, it is designed by the Plutocracy as a global war on the majority of humanity, for the sole benefit of their tiny minority.

Of course, at present, most of us "don't [seem to] know what has hit us".

Regards,

Miguel

Sorry was meant to continue with...

Also how can this be explained to the ordinary person in terms that they can understand (user friendly) and at the same time for them to still understand the concept. The language and form that you are using is quite 'technical'.

Obviously before explaining in simple understandable terms the proposed changes, I would have thought that concrete evidence of the 'current operating model' would need to be put forward.

It's a tough challenge to change things, even small things in peoples lives are difficult to change and the older people get the less inclined they are to take kindly to it. Not to mention that the more outwardly 'comfortable' people feel with their lives the less inclined they are to want to break the pattern.

It would be interesting to read your response on this

G