Miguel Detonnaciones
17th February 2011, 20:04
Theory Forum Participants,
Hypothesis: Brief Summary of the "Psycho-Historical Law" of the History of Capitalism as a predictable stage in the self-alienated self-development of the Human "Phenome" / Genome --
The primary driver of the trajectory of a
[self-]globalcapital-relation-based human-social system
is the "[I]self-duality" of capital as "self-expanding value" versus capital as "self-contracting value", and the mutually-determined shift in the balance of these two contrary, mutually-engendering processes as the "capital-praxis" of humanity develops itself. . .
Competitive capitalism is inherently unstable.
Competition leads to the negation of competition.
Some competitors succeed, most fail.
The succeeding competitors typically swallow up the assets of the failing competitors.
As a result, the concentration of economic power grows, in the hands of the successful competitors.
[Capital as "Self-Expanding Value": Profits reinvested especially in new, cheaper to purchase, cheaper to operate/maintain, more productive "capital equipment"] --
But, as the mass of profit-productivity-enhancing [relative surplus value producing] fixed capital grows relative to the mass of circulating capital, the vulnerability of the concentrated owners of capital to devastating competition from "upstart" new entrants, employing less costly and/or more productive fixed capital, grows apace.
[Capital as "Self-Contracting Value" w.r.t. past, obsolete fixed-capital value] --
The concentrated capital owners can be forced, by such competition, to retire their thus "obsoleted" fixed capital at a loss, long before its full-physical-life-time-use "full amortization" would have paid for it with profit-returns, AND while they still owe debt-service on the loans they took out to purchase that now-worth-less fixed capital, perhaps having to pay that debt-service for many years still to come, while also having to take out NEW loans on the NEW, replacement fixed-capital, that is competitive with the"upstart" new entrant's more advanced fixed capital.
The compounding of debt-service payment expenses on fixed capital no longer in use, and thus no longer generating any revenue "coverage" of its own debt-service costs, combined with the continual writing-off of fixed capital "obsoleted" in this way, once the value of fixed capital has become a large or even a predominant portion of total capital, can induce a secular decline in the net rate of profit return on investment for core concentrated capital.
Later, this capital-return-rate decline is "socialized" -- converted into inflation losses to the public , via "Central Bank" fractional reserve monetary systems [fiat debt-money-creation systems], designed for that purpose by the core plutocracy, which "dis-tend" the capital "law of value" as it existed when monetary expansion was still tied to "precious metal" production, e.g., to gold production.
For evidence of this, see the Oregon State University web site's graph of U. S. Price Levels from 1665 to 2005 --
http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.htm
As a result, the owners of concentrated, core capital move massively to destroy such "upstart", new entrant, new technology based competition, both from entrepreneurs in the industrial capitalist core countries, and from other countries, outside that core, that have the potential to industrialize -- a potential that they seek to crush by the setting up of progress-suppressing "comprador" servant-dictatorships throughout the yet-to-industrialize peripheries of the core capitalist countries.
The successful competitors, the core concentrated capital owners, have sufficient capital-profit-funds, and other forms of power, to begin "buying-out" the national governments of the core -- legislature, executive, and judiciary.
They leverage their prostitution of these governments to destroy real competition, arranging corporate welfare of all kinds for themselves, and biased regulatory strangulation for their smaller competitors, especially the new entrants who are fielding the most innovative, higher-productivity technologies.
The core plutocracy then begins a concerted attack on the further growth of "the social forces of production", attacking the growth of the "self-productivity" of humanity on all sides, including increasingly diverting tax revenues on workers' wages into military "investment" and wars -- into means of mass destruction of human social reproduction and of its "social re-productivity".
Now "Above the Law", the concentrated-ownership plutocracy begins to kidnap ["disappear"], or assassinate, or otherwise ruin [often using the unconstitutionally-expanded police powers of their prostitute-governments] inventors whose innovations threaten to "techno-depreciate" the plutocrats 'fixed capital via more-advanced, more-productive technology.
[EXAMPLE: HYPOTHESIS -- the Rockefeller Oil/Finance Plutocracy has brought about the rapid demise, in one way or another, of every single inventor/scientist who has ever announced a successful fusion reactor design. For evidence regarding this hypotheses, see -- the Global-Samizdat org website, article on the long history of the plutocracy's suppression of fusion power technology].
For more about these "techno-depreciation" dynamics [productive forces growth induced de-valuation / dis-accumulation contributions within net-accumulating capital-value], see --
(1) Equitism org site, Theory of Equitism section, article on [I]The Political-Economic Law of Motion of Modern [Capitalist] Society --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm
(2) Paper by Geert Reuten, entitled "The Incompatibility of Prolonged Technical Change and Competition: Concurrence and the Socialisation of Entrepreneurial Losses through Inflation" --
http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/bin/642fulltext.pdf
(3) Oregon State University, Political Science Dept., Graph "U. S. Price Levels 1665 to 2005, in Constant (2005) Dollars" --
http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.htm
(4) Equitism org website, Theory of Equitism section, article on Political-Economic Democracy --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm
(5) Adventures-in-dialectics org website, extracts from economists on "techno-depreciation", entitled "On Techno-Depreciation, Fictitious Capital, and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (Quotes and Notes)" — Part A.: "As Perceived by Pro-Capitalist Economists" , and Part B.: "As Perceived by Marx and Writers Relating to the Marxian Tradition" --
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
So, the plutocracy also uses "its" wealth, and the military power of the core capitalist state(s) which it has prostituted, using revenues that it expropriates gratis, not only via the relative and absolute value that it expropriates from the working class, but, on top of that, via the tax revenues paid to those states mainly by their non-wealthy, non-plutocrat citizens -- by their working classes, as a further deduction from their wages -- to install, and to maintain, "servant-dictatorships" all over the periphery of the core/"advanced" capitalist state(s), whose function is to murder the progressive citizens of those nations, and to destroy any industrialization or technological advance in those peripheral states, with the aim to maintain those peripheries in a perpetual process of "underdevelopment" and "dis-development".
Otherwise, the core plutocracy would face "techno-depreciation" of its capital assets from abroad, from the periphery, where a combination of traditionally low wages, and latest-vintage, higher-productivity capital equipment, in competition against the plutocracy's older-vintage/obsolete capital equipment, and the higher wages won through generations of bloody struggles against that plutocracy in the core state(s), would "techno-depreciate" that plutocracy's capital assets, and/or depress its rate of return on those assets, to an extent which would threaten the ability to hold onto power of that plutocracy.
Just look at what happened to their core industries when they had to let just one of those "peripheries" -- Japan -- re-industrialize, to counter the threat to wrest global power away from them from and by yet another "servant-dictator" turned "franken-dictator": Stalin!
These plutocrats next even begin to fund anti-science, anti-technology, and "people are pollution" [pro-humanocide] ideologies [e.g., Rockefeller "Eugenics" in the 1920s & 1930s, adopted -- and discredited -- by their former servant-dictator, later turned "Franken-Dictator", seeking to replace them with himself as world dictator, Adolph Hitler], to help block further advances in human social productivity, which would devalue their capital, and, hence, since they won't allow social productivity to rise, work, via such "engineered" ideologies, to achieve public acquiescence in global multi-genocide, since their productivity-growth-blocking actions accumulate an ever more miserable population of poor people worldwide, ever more likely to revolt against that plutocracy.
The plutocracy therefore acts to murder these people pre-emptively.
Thus, the self-degeneration of representative-democratic, competitive capitalism into totalitarian, humanocidal state-capitalism is inevitable.
This path represents the immanent "law of motion" of industrial-capital-based human societies.
The only way out that I see from this living, waking nightmare into which we are descending is to increasingly put the productive assets of society, as [I]social property, into the stewardship of "the associated producers" in the form of socialized producers' cooperatives, which must meet the test of market competition -- e.g., the Equitists' "[I]Stewardship Equity" rights of all citizens.
Control -- not ownership, but stewardship -- of [social re-]productive assets would, in that way, be widely dispersed, creating constitution-based, citizen-economic-rights-based economic checks-and-balances, conserving the checks-and-balances on "customer service quality" provided by market competition, and blocking the hyper-concentration of capital-asset-value seen today, which leads rapidly to the global self-destruction of human society, through destruction of productive forces advance, and the other, "humanocidal" machinations of the capitalist ruling class, hell-bent on holding onto their power -- and holding onto its "perks": their lives of pillage, torture, rape, and mass murder -- at all costs.
This will require a popular revolution in the "core of the core" of this descendant-phase, proto-totalitarian [proto-fascist state-]capitalism -- in the U.S. -- much like the revolution which overthrew Stalinist, bureaucratic-ruling-class state-capitalism in Russia and Eastern Europe.
But, this time, this revolution must be, if it is to succeed, a revolution aimed DIRECTLY at the ruling Rockefeller / Morgan / [...] "invisible dictatorship", which was able to pervert and suppress the Eastern European/Russian revolutions against state-capitalism, installing new "servant-dictators" there, because it was in a momentaneously safe, privileged position to strike at them, since it was not directly vulnerable to those popular revolutions.
This renewed revolution, if it is to succeed, must be aimed at GREATER individual freedom, not less.
It must be a revolution whose goal is the CONSERVATIVE EXTENSION ["Aufheben"-Negation] of the U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, so as to add ECONOMIC CHECKS AND BALANCES, and new Species of Citizen Equity -- such as the Equitists' "Citizen Externality Equity", "Citizen Birthright Equity", "Citizen Stewardship Equity", and "Citizen Allocational Equity" -- i.e., so as to expand it to establish comprehensive, universal "stakeholder democracy", beyond but still including, and, for the first time, enforcing "stockholder democracy" -- New Citizen Economic Rights -- to the Political Rights and checks-and-balances already established -- even if honored mostly "in the breach", especially lately -- in the Bill Of Rights of that Constitution.
It must be, to succeed, a revolution whose demand is an amendment of the U. S. Constitution, establishing a Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.
It should be a legal, non-violent movement for constitutional amendment, using the legally-established channels for such amendment.
Unfortunately, the Caligulan, Neroan, hyper-pervertoids of the U. S. plutocracy can be expected to attack this movement illegally, with all of the ultra-violence that they can muster, until or unless this movement becomes popular enough [just as the popularity of the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the former USSR eventually stayed the hand of the vicious secret police and the pro-Stalinist army elements, flash-freezing those craven bullies in their fear of popular wrath]. Since this ultra-violent ruling class response is predictable, it should be prepared for in advance.
How much more mass murder will the people of the United States tolerate from the "Rocke-Nazi", "RICO" U.S. "government" before they rise up?
Pseudo-Anarchists and Pseudo-Libertarians take heed: Pining away for a utopia of stable, perpetual free capitalist competition, a la, e.g., Ron Paul -- a utopia that does not exist, and that cannot exist -- is, well, ineffective, and impractical, to say the least!
Pseudo-Marxians [Lenino-Stalinoids, Lenino-Trotskyoids, ad nauseam] take heed: State-capitalism is not socialism [= the political-economic democracy of the "associated producers"], but the very extremity of socialism's historical opposite!
Regards,
Miguel
Hypothesis: Brief Summary of the "Psycho-Historical Law" of the History of Capitalism as a predictable stage in the self-alienated self-development of the Human "Phenome" / Genome --
The primary driver of the trajectory of a
[self-]globalcapital-relation-based human-social system
is the "[I]self-duality" of capital as "self-expanding value" versus capital as "self-contracting value", and the mutually-determined shift in the balance of these two contrary, mutually-engendering processes as the "capital-praxis" of humanity develops itself. . .
Competitive capitalism is inherently unstable.
Competition leads to the negation of competition.
Some competitors succeed, most fail.
The succeeding competitors typically swallow up the assets of the failing competitors.
As a result, the concentration of economic power grows, in the hands of the successful competitors.
[Capital as "Self-Expanding Value": Profits reinvested especially in new, cheaper to purchase, cheaper to operate/maintain, more productive "capital equipment"] --
But, as the mass of profit-productivity-enhancing [relative surplus value producing] fixed capital grows relative to the mass of circulating capital, the vulnerability of the concentrated owners of capital to devastating competition from "upstart" new entrants, employing less costly and/or more productive fixed capital, grows apace.
[Capital as "Self-Contracting Value" w.r.t. past, obsolete fixed-capital value] --
The concentrated capital owners can be forced, by such competition, to retire their thus "obsoleted" fixed capital at a loss, long before its full-physical-life-time-use "full amortization" would have paid for it with profit-returns, AND while they still owe debt-service on the loans they took out to purchase that now-worth-less fixed capital, perhaps having to pay that debt-service for many years still to come, while also having to take out NEW loans on the NEW, replacement fixed-capital, that is competitive with the"upstart" new entrant's more advanced fixed capital.
The compounding of debt-service payment expenses on fixed capital no longer in use, and thus no longer generating any revenue "coverage" of its own debt-service costs, combined with the continual writing-off of fixed capital "obsoleted" in this way, once the value of fixed capital has become a large or even a predominant portion of total capital, can induce a secular decline in the net rate of profit return on investment for core concentrated capital.
Later, this capital-return-rate decline is "socialized" -- converted into inflation losses to the public , via "Central Bank" fractional reserve monetary systems [fiat debt-money-creation systems], designed for that purpose by the core plutocracy, which "dis-tend" the capital "law of value" as it existed when monetary expansion was still tied to "precious metal" production, e.g., to gold production.
For evidence of this, see the Oregon State University web site's graph of U. S. Price Levels from 1665 to 2005 --
http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.htm
As a result, the owners of concentrated, core capital move massively to destroy such "upstart", new entrant, new technology based competition, both from entrepreneurs in the industrial capitalist core countries, and from other countries, outside that core, that have the potential to industrialize -- a potential that they seek to crush by the setting up of progress-suppressing "comprador" servant-dictatorships throughout the yet-to-industrialize peripheries of the core capitalist countries.
The successful competitors, the core concentrated capital owners, have sufficient capital-profit-funds, and other forms of power, to begin "buying-out" the national governments of the core -- legislature, executive, and judiciary.
They leverage their prostitution of these governments to destroy real competition, arranging corporate welfare of all kinds for themselves, and biased regulatory strangulation for their smaller competitors, especially the new entrants who are fielding the most innovative, higher-productivity technologies.
The core plutocracy then begins a concerted attack on the further growth of "the social forces of production", attacking the growth of the "self-productivity" of humanity on all sides, including increasingly diverting tax revenues on workers' wages into military "investment" and wars -- into means of mass destruction of human social reproduction and of its "social re-productivity".
Now "Above the Law", the concentrated-ownership plutocracy begins to kidnap ["disappear"], or assassinate, or otherwise ruin [often using the unconstitutionally-expanded police powers of their prostitute-governments] inventors whose innovations threaten to "techno-depreciate" the plutocrats 'fixed capital via more-advanced, more-productive technology.
[EXAMPLE: HYPOTHESIS -- the Rockefeller Oil/Finance Plutocracy has brought about the rapid demise, in one way or another, of every single inventor/scientist who has ever announced a successful fusion reactor design. For evidence regarding this hypotheses, see -- the Global-Samizdat org website, article on the long history of the plutocracy's suppression of fusion power technology].
For more about these "techno-depreciation" dynamics [productive forces growth induced de-valuation / dis-accumulation contributions within net-accumulating capital-value], see --
(1) Equitism org site, Theory of Equitism section, article on [I]The Political-Economic Law of Motion of Modern [Capitalist] Society --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm
(2) Paper by Geert Reuten, entitled "The Incompatibility of Prolonged Technical Change and Competition: Concurrence and the Socialisation of Entrepreneurial Losses through Inflation" --
http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/bin/642fulltext.pdf
(3) Oregon State University, Political Science Dept., Graph "U. S. Price Levels 1665 to 2005, in Constant (2005) Dollars" --
http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/pl1665.htm
(4) Equitism org website, Theory of Equitism section, article on Political-Economic Democracy --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm
(5) Adventures-in-dialectics org website, extracts from economists on "techno-depreciation", entitled "On Techno-Depreciation, Fictitious Capital, and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (Quotes and Notes)" — Part A.: "As Perceived by Pro-Capitalist Economists" , and Part B.: "As Perceived by Marx and Writers Relating to the Marxian Tradition" --
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
So, the plutocracy also uses "its" wealth, and the military power of the core capitalist state(s) which it has prostituted, using revenues that it expropriates gratis, not only via the relative and absolute value that it expropriates from the working class, but, on top of that, via the tax revenues paid to those states mainly by their non-wealthy, non-plutocrat citizens -- by their working classes, as a further deduction from their wages -- to install, and to maintain, "servant-dictatorships" all over the periphery of the core/"advanced" capitalist state(s), whose function is to murder the progressive citizens of those nations, and to destroy any industrialization or technological advance in those peripheral states, with the aim to maintain those peripheries in a perpetual process of "underdevelopment" and "dis-development".
Otherwise, the core plutocracy would face "techno-depreciation" of its capital assets from abroad, from the periphery, where a combination of traditionally low wages, and latest-vintage, higher-productivity capital equipment, in competition against the plutocracy's older-vintage/obsolete capital equipment, and the higher wages won through generations of bloody struggles against that plutocracy in the core state(s), would "techno-depreciate" that plutocracy's capital assets, and/or depress its rate of return on those assets, to an extent which would threaten the ability to hold onto power of that plutocracy.
Just look at what happened to their core industries when they had to let just one of those "peripheries" -- Japan -- re-industrialize, to counter the threat to wrest global power away from them from and by yet another "servant-dictator" turned "franken-dictator": Stalin!
These plutocrats next even begin to fund anti-science, anti-technology, and "people are pollution" [pro-humanocide] ideologies [e.g., Rockefeller "Eugenics" in the 1920s & 1930s, adopted -- and discredited -- by their former servant-dictator, later turned "Franken-Dictator", seeking to replace them with himself as world dictator, Adolph Hitler], to help block further advances in human social productivity, which would devalue their capital, and, hence, since they won't allow social productivity to rise, work, via such "engineered" ideologies, to achieve public acquiescence in global multi-genocide, since their productivity-growth-blocking actions accumulate an ever more miserable population of poor people worldwide, ever more likely to revolt against that plutocracy.
The plutocracy therefore acts to murder these people pre-emptively.
Thus, the self-degeneration of representative-democratic, competitive capitalism into totalitarian, humanocidal state-capitalism is inevitable.
This path represents the immanent "law of motion" of industrial-capital-based human societies.
The only way out that I see from this living, waking nightmare into which we are descending is to increasingly put the productive assets of society, as [I]social property, into the stewardship of "the associated producers" in the form of socialized producers' cooperatives, which must meet the test of market competition -- e.g., the Equitists' "[I]Stewardship Equity" rights of all citizens.
Control -- not ownership, but stewardship -- of [social re-]productive assets would, in that way, be widely dispersed, creating constitution-based, citizen-economic-rights-based economic checks-and-balances, conserving the checks-and-balances on "customer service quality" provided by market competition, and blocking the hyper-concentration of capital-asset-value seen today, which leads rapidly to the global self-destruction of human society, through destruction of productive forces advance, and the other, "humanocidal" machinations of the capitalist ruling class, hell-bent on holding onto their power -- and holding onto its "perks": their lives of pillage, torture, rape, and mass murder -- at all costs.
This will require a popular revolution in the "core of the core" of this descendant-phase, proto-totalitarian [proto-fascist state-]capitalism -- in the U.S. -- much like the revolution which overthrew Stalinist, bureaucratic-ruling-class state-capitalism in Russia and Eastern Europe.
But, this time, this revolution must be, if it is to succeed, a revolution aimed DIRECTLY at the ruling Rockefeller / Morgan / [...] "invisible dictatorship", which was able to pervert and suppress the Eastern European/Russian revolutions against state-capitalism, installing new "servant-dictators" there, because it was in a momentaneously safe, privileged position to strike at them, since it was not directly vulnerable to those popular revolutions.
This renewed revolution, if it is to succeed, must be aimed at GREATER individual freedom, not less.
It must be a revolution whose goal is the CONSERVATIVE EXTENSION ["Aufheben"-Negation] of the U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, so as to add ECONOMIC CHECKS AND BALANCES, and new Species of Citizen Equity -- such as the Equitists' "Citizen Externality Equity", "Citizen Birthright Equity", "Citizen Stewardship Equity", and "Citizen Allocational Equity" -- i.e., so as to expand it to establish comprehensive, universal "stakeholder democracy", beyond but still including, and, for the first time, enforcing "stockholder democracy" -- New Citizen Economic Rights -- to the Political Rights and checks-and-balances already established -- even if honored mostly "in the breach", especially lately -- in the Bill Of Rights of that Constitution.
It must be, to succeed, a revolution whose demand is an amendment of the U. S. Constitution, establishing a Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.
It should be a legal, non-violent movement for constitutional amendment, using the legally-established channels for such amendment.
Unfortunately, the Caligulan, Neroan, hyper-pervertoids of the U. S. plutocracy can be expected to attack this movement illegally, with all of the ultra-violence that they can muster, until or unless this movement becomes popular enough [just as the popularity of the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the former USSR eventually stayed the hand of the vicious secret police and the pro-Stalinist army elements, flash-freezing those craven bullies in their fear of popular wrath]. Since this ultra-violent ruling class response is predictable, it should be prepared for in advance.
How much more mass murder will the people of the United States tolerate from the "Rocke-Nazi", "RICO" U.S. "government" before they rise up?
Pseudo-Anarchists and Pseudo-Libertarians take heed: Pining away for a utopia of stable, perpetual free capitalist competition, a la, e.g., Ron Paul -- a utopia that does not exist, and that cannot exist -- is, well, ineffective, and impractical, to say the least!
Pseudo-Marxians [Lenino-Stalinoids, Lenino-Trotskyoids, ad nauseam] take heed: State-capitalism is not socialism [= the political-economic democracy of the "associated producers"], but the very extremity of socialism's historical opposite!
Regards,
Miguel