DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION TO CAPITALISM'S "MARKET FAILURES", OF POLLUTION, ETC. "EXTERNALITIES":
CITIZEN EXTERNALITY EQUITY
Dear Readers,
Below, I have made some emphases and edits of my own to an excerpt from one of
the Equitist Advocacy Group's texts, to render it more forthcoming [I hope!].
Definition.
"CITIZEN EXTERNALITY EQUITY =
The social principle, and social policy, of 'Citizen Externality Equity' Rights
is both a collective-property, public(s)-property, social-property instantiation
of the so-called "Coase Theorem", and an ultimate fruition of the '''equity'''
or '''equitable jurisprudence''' tradition of Anglo-American law, in
contradistinction to the common law and statutory law traditions. It actualizes
the equity property that each citizen acquires through suffering the external costs
imposed upon that citizen by external costs producers, via collective-democratic
disposition of that collective property or social property right.
Elaboration.
"Externalities" are "market failures" of the markets of Capitalism, as
recognized, and as named as such, by capitalist economists, constituting a major
aspect of the immanent critique of capitalism officially admitted — however much
these immanent failures of 'capital-ism' may be officially downplayed — by
capitalist economics.
"Externalities" comprise the "external costs", and, sometimes, the "external
benefits", that are imposed, by the operations of capitalist enterprises, upon
those '''publics''' which are neither the owners, the employees, the customers,
nor the suppliers of those enterprises, and which impose suffering, up to and including
premature death, upon those '''publics''' without any intrinsic provision for consent by,
or compensation to, said '''publics''', by said perpetrators.
The life-threatening toxic pollution of the air, water, and soil of residential
communities by proximate industrial plants forms a classic spectrum of examples
of such "external cost" imposition.
The "Coase Theorem" is the name given to the proposition, asserted by
Nobel-laureate capitalist economist Ronald Coase, to the effect that
externalities do not give rise to '''diseconomies''', '''distribution
sub-optima''', or '''resource mis-allocations''', provided that well-defined and
enforceable property rights exist, such as to create a market incentive for the
externality-producer to '''internalize''' the costs of their "externalities".
The "equity" tradition, or "equitable jurisprudence" tradition, of
Anglo-American law originally emerged as a system of law/courts, parallel and
dual to the common law/statutory system/courts of law, in the English chancery,
and which came to comprise a settled and formal body of substantive and
procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common law and
statutory law. "Equity" in this context connotes '"justice according to
fairness, especially as distinguished from mechanical application of rules"'.
The equity principle at work in the 'externality equities' '''second
«species»''' of 'generalized equity' [second to the "internalities equities"
first «species», of "stockholder democracy", already established under capitalism],
is the principle that publics, which suffer the '''external costs''' coercively imposed
upon them, without their consent and without any consideration or other
compensation, by private-capital enterprises, thereby, in effect, '''purchase'''
shares of a new, to-be constitutionally established and mandated class of
equities – a publics', collective form of equity-property – whose disposition
must therefore be by means of collective, democratic decision, arrived at by
vote of the publics, i.e., of the 'externality-equities' owners -- who are thus
non-capital-owning '''shareholders''', or '''stakeholders''', of those enterprises.
'Externality Equity' implies an immanent-/self-expansion of joint-stock-company
stockholder democracy principles, inherent in the capital-relation, to encompass
the constitutional, legislative, and regulatory 'institution-ization' of
generalized, comprehensive, non-capital-owning '''stakeholder democracy'''.
'Equitism' begins with constitutional recognition of a new, universal
'socio-ontological category' of all-citizens' equities: 'citizen externality
equities'.
'Externality Equity' generalizes core, capital-equity logic to encompass
economic democracy, starting with public, democratic econo-political governance
of the core of capitalism's '''market failures''' – its production and
accumulation of an ever-mounting burden of the '''externalities''' that it
foists upon its publics, publics who may be "third parties" – neither customers
of, nor employees of, nor [capital-equity-stock-]owners of, nor suppliers of the
capital-entity producing the deleterious "externalities" in question.
Envisioning the Transition
We expect to find — given a protracted and appropriate, including «samizdat»,
preparation of the majority social conscience — the emergence of a majoritarian,
popular movement for the 'Equitarian Reform', an 'economic-democratic extension'
of the "representative-democratic", '''political-democratic''' constitutions of
the nations of the capital-system's global market core.
We expect this movement to develop in response to the accelerating
'''political-economic immiseration''' and degradation of those societies in the
accelerating on-rush, by their ruling classes, into the multi-genocidal,
state-capitalist totalitarian destiny engendered by the unresisted
decadent-phase depredations of the capitals-system, in the desperate efforts of
the concentrated-capital-owning ruling class to avert the
"self-contracting-value-dominant", "techno-depreciation-dominant" phase
immanent in the law-of-motion of the capitals-system.
The 'Equitarian Reforms' are envisioned as a 'constitutionalization' and
'juridicalization', into social law, of an immanent critique, or self-critique,
of the "capital-relation" — of capital: a critique both theoretical and practical.
The institutional infrastructure of the 'Externality Equity' «species» of
'generalized equity' is a finite, scaled, 'quanto-qualitative' self-similarity structure,
a 'synchronic meta-fractal', of economic governance bodies, based in publicly-elected,
base-elected public directors, serving in the new, constitutionally-mandated,
'''second houses''' of local, newly bi-cameral boards of directors: the public
stakeholders' «camera», or 'externality-equities' «camera», of that newly
bi-cameral governance.
Per this programme, these "second house", 'public boards of directors', or
'boards of popularly-elected, public directors', are to be constitutionally
required in all local enterprises with sufficient externalities impact, in
accordance with a constitutionally-stipulated externalities-impact metric, and a
threshold stipulated in terms of that metric.
These new, public boards, would co-manage, in continuous negotiation with the
traditional, 'internality-equities' board, and/or its local "management
committee", or "executive committee" delegates, the annual 'externalities
budgets'/operating plans of each such enterprise, with constitutionally and
legislatively ceded co-authority to do so, 'adjudicate-able' via the judiciary
branch of social governance in cases of deadlock, with the losing party paying
the costs of the court engagement.
Arising therefrom — possibly, at first, as extra-constitutional "NGOs", prior to
their full constitutional institutionalization — we anticipate the accelerating
emergence of local/municipal, state/provincial, regional, national, continental,
and, eventually, global, associations of public directors.
All levels of these associations of public directors must eventually be
constitutionally-required to be base-elected, so that it is not the members of a
more local-scale association that elect the members of the next-less-local-scale
association.
It must be the combined base of all of the more local associations addressed by
a given next-scale association that elect the members of that next-scale
association.
The function of these associations is to coordinate externalities social
management policy at 'meta-enterprise' levels.
We expect that these associations would increasingly constitute – at first, «de facto», and,
later, by sovereign, popular institution and constitutional amendment, «de jure»
— a fourth, 'econo-political', branch of government, in sustained
'quadruple-power' with «aufheben»-conserved/-transformed executive, legislative,
and judicial branches, with checks-and-balances between every pair of these four
branches.
A key effect of the actions of these associations would be a human-geographical
'de-abstractification' / 're-determination / containment' of abstract capital;
an «aufheben»-conserving /-negating '''real subsumption''' of the capital-equity,
or 'internality-equity', relation, its markets, and its '''market failures''', within the
democratized human-social relations of production of the
generalized-equity-relation, including all of the new socio-ontological classes
of 'non-internality-equity' emergent from their 'externality-equity' «arché».
The 'Intra-Duality' of the "Capital-Relation", and the Emergence therefrom of the
New Social-Relations-of-Production 'Socio-Ontology' of 'Generalized Equity':
Some Conjectures Regarding 'Equitism'.
An 'essence-ial' operation of the «Kapitals»-system, that it applies externally,
to its surrounding pre-capitalist hinterland [as it converts that hinterland
into new socio-geographical increments to itself, to its own geographical
domain], as it does also internally, to its own already-converted internal
terrain, is one of expropriation — expropriation of small-holder peasant
producers on the land and of self-employed urban artisans, etc., to form/expand
the wage-labour class; expropriation of smaller capitals by larger,
expropriation of surplus-labor and of surplus-value, etc.
«Kapital» is also, 'essence-ially', an operation of bursting-asunder all
barriers to the 'quanto-qualitative' advance of 'human-social self-productivity'
[of the "societal self-re-productive self-force" of human society, cf. Marx].
As the «Kapital»-conversion of the pre-capital hinterland nears completion, as
the «Kapitals»-system comes to surround the last remnants of the social-systemic
'''other''' that once surrounded it, we move toward that moment in the history
of the «Kapitals»-system in which that system will 'surround' and confront only
itself worldwide.
That approaching [extended] historical moment means that the operations which
that system hitherto applied to the predecessor social formations that
surrounded it, or 'environmented' it, in the past – namely, the operations of
expropriation and of social-barrier-dissolution — will be applied to the
«Kapitals»-system itself, by the «Kapitals»-system itself, as its own only remaining
human-social environment, in its final confrontation: in its confrontation with itself.
With regard to the expropriation operator, this would mean an expropriation of
the expropriation [operation] itself, which operation is «Kapital». Marx --
"What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e., its historical genesis,
resolve itself into?
In so far as it is not immediate transformation of slaves and serfs into
wage-labourers, and therefore a mere change of form, it only means the
expropriation of the immediate producers, i.e., the dissolution of private
property based on the labour of its owner. …
as soon as the capitalist mode of production stands on its own feet...the
further expropriation of private proprietors takes a new form.
That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the labourer working for
himself, but the capitalist exploiting many labourers. This expropriation is
accomplished by the action of the immanent laws of capitalistic production
itself, by the centralisation of capital.
One capitalist always kills many.
Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists
by few, develop, on an ever-increasing scale, the cooperative form of the
labour-process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical
cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into
instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of
production by their use as the means of production of combined, socialised
labour ['the objective socialization of the means of production' – M.D.], the
entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world-market, and, with this, the
international character of the capitalist régime. ...
The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has
sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.
Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last
reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.
This integument is burst asunder.
The knell of capitalist private property sounds.
The expropriators are expropriated."
[Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I, Chapter XXXII, "Historical Tendency of Capitalist
Accumulation", International Publishers [NY: 1967], pages 761-764, emphasis
added by M.D.]
Marx foresaw, in The Grundrisse, that, in this 'self-environment' or
'self-surroundment' and 'self-envelopment' of the «Kapitals»-system, it would
find in its own nature a barrier to the further development of the social
'''self-forces''' of self-expanding societal self-[re-]production, and act upon
itself accordingly, unstoppably, whatever to the contrary its partisans and
beneficiaries might wish:
"... capital has pushed beyond national boundaries and prejudices, beyond the
deification of nature and the inherited, self-sufficient satisfaction of
existing needs confined within well-defined bounds, and the reproduction of the
traditional way of life.
It is destructive of all this, and permanently revolutionary, tearing down all
obstacles that impede the development of the productive forces, the expansion of
needs, the diversity of production and the exploitation and exchange of natural
and intellectual forces.
But because capital sets up any such boundary as a limitation and is thus
ideally over and beyond it, it does not in any way follow that it has really
surmounted it, and since any such limitation contradicts its vocation,
capitalist production moves in contradictions, which are constantly overcome,
only to be, again, constantly re-established [and, on an ever-larger
'meta-fractal' scale – M.D.].
Still more so.
The universality towards which it is perpetually driving finds limitations in
its own nature, which, at a certain stage of its development will make it appear
as itself the greatest barrier to this tendency, leading thus to its own
self-destruction."
[David McLellan, The Grundrisse, Karl Marx, Harper & Row [NY: 1971], pages
94-95, emphasis added by M.D.]
Vastly more needs to be said about the historical dynamics and 'meta-dynamics'
of the «Kapitals»-system, and about the mechanisms and 'organisms' of its
'meta-finite self-conversion / self-bifurcation self-singularity', as especially
about the immanent tendency of accumulating capital-value to de-value itself,
and of the rate of capital value-accumulation to decelerate itself, both as
expressions of the growth of the society-re-productive forces within capital.
However, the above-excerpted intimations must suffice for the present purpose.
Averting, by Social[-Relations-of-Production] Revolution, the Otherwise Pre-Destined '''New Dark Age''' Denouement of Decadent Capitalism: Towards a Strategy for Humanity.
The Fight for Human Liberty is Now a Life-and-Death Struggle Against Decadent
Capitalism – Against the Unchecked Power of the Totalitarian, Humanocidal
Capitalist Plutocracy of the Advanced Capitalist Core of the World-Market
System.
The «Kapitals»-systems of national and global political economy have engendered
liberal political constitutions, with internal checks and balances limiting the
abuse of political power, which have, as a result, proven relatively so
successful at growing 'human-social self-productivity' / '''the social forces of
production'''.
But their economic and social success is now rapidly turning
into its opposite — into catastrophic economic, political, social failure.
The power of their economies have, at length, outgrown the power of their
political constitutions, and of their exclusively political checks and balances,
to avert the accumulation of unchecked power, and the human-species-lethal
abuse of that unchecked power, in the formation of a pro-totalitarian, humanocidal
capitalist plutocracy.
Their market competition, which provides economic checks and balances limiting
abuses in the pricing and quality of goods and services, and in the degradation
of customer service quality in general, becomes, and must become, successful competition.
Successful competition becomes, and must become, the [partial] negation of
competition, namely, monopoly [or oligopolistic, etc., near-monopoly].
Thus, competition leads to and becomes its opposite, monopoly and oligopoly.
The process of the competition of capitals thus leads to the formation of
agglomerations of capital so gargantuan that they can take over the mass media
of public communication, and buy-out the political system — legislative,
executive, and judicial; lock, stock, and barrel.
Thereby, the political checks and balances among those branches of the public,
political government are obviated and subverted.
The houses of legislature become houses of prostitution.
The executive and judicial branches of government are, over time, likewise
bought-out and prostituted.
Increasingly, only those candidates for public, political, elected office who
sell themselves to the plutocracy can acquire the vast funding necessary to buy
access to the plutocracy-owned/dominated mass media sufficient to achieve electoral
victory.
Thus, successful advanced capitalist democracies are characterized by a
seemingly irresistible tendency to plutocratic totalitarian degeneration.
The horrific dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin, precisely because they arose in
nations whose capitalist development was in some ways retarded, have provided a
prevenient, disfigured prefigurement of the hellish future of demise that
humanity faces in the further, advanced-decadence development of this
plutocratic totalitarian, and humanocidal, self-degeneration of capitalism.
Only the addition of constitutional economic checks and balances can overcome
this economic subversion of once-partially-effective but exclusively political
checks and balances.
Only the emergence of political-economic democracy, of a democratically
'politicized' political economy, can check this tendency to plutocratic
totalitarian political degeneration, a degeneration which has arisen from the
economy; from the 'economic side' of the political-economy; from the economy's
production of a prostitute-government, prostituted most-abjectly to the economic
plutocracy.
The Capital Equity Stock Shares-Principles of 'Internality Equity' and the
Capital-Governance Norm of Stockholder Democracy.
The share-principle, the capital-equity-principle, the one-share-unit-of-capital-owned =
one-vote-for-the-election-of-directors-to-the-board-of-directors governance
principle of stockholder democracy, immanent within the 'socio-ontological
category' of capital, is a principle of economic-democratic enfranchisement for
the owners of capital, but also a principle of total economic dis-enfranchisement
for the non-owners of capital.
The principle of 'Equitism' outers the latent, immanent dual of that capital-principle,
a principle of enfranchisement also for the non-owners of capital.
It does so in the form of the moral recognition and juridical formation,
initially, of a new class of property-equities, that of 'externality-equities',
in part via the "equity" tradition of 'precedentary', case-law jurisprudence, as
well as from the generalized-equity-enabling 'Equitarian' constitutional
amendments — amendments to be proposed in detail under separate cover.
[M.D.: The details have since been posted to --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/AmendmentXXVIII/AmendmentXXVIII.pdf ].
. . .
The term 'Externality Equity' herein denotes a form of non-stockholder
stakeholder equity which arises from principles extending those already extant
and precedented in the "equity" tradition of case law.
It arises, in particular, from the principle that the ownership of capital,
however legitimately acquired, does not convey to the owner the unlimited right
to coercively inflict harm and damage upon other citizens and upon society as a whole.
It arises also from the further principle that the best locus in which to
adjudicate and mitigate the externalities generated by the operation of
capitalist enterprises — the "external costs", or "costs imposed upon third-parties"
whose interests are not represented in the traditional institutions of private
capital governance, e.g., in the stockholders-elected Boards of Directors — is
the locus of their origination: the very heart of internal capital governance itself.
External, governmental regulatory bureaucracies, legislatively chartered and
overseen, are subject to the plutocracy's bribery of the legislatures and to the
"revolving door" bribes of later industry-employment offered to the regulating
bureaucrats by the regulated industries.
Lawsuits, brought before the judiciary, against the personal and social damages
inflicted by those industries, are generally too delayed, and too costly, for
the citizen litigants, who face the ultra-deep-pockets of their plutocratic,
mega-corporate adversaries.
Such exclusively litigious actions for redress are also exposed to the gradual
corruption of the judiciary by the plutocracy's bribery that increasingly
controls the legislature and the executive branches, which share the power to
appoint the central judiciary.
On the other hand, nationalization of industry, and state-monopoly of all
capital, threatens to resurrect the unchecked, absolute, absolutely-corrupt, and
soon-totalitarian dictatorship of 'Lenino-Stalinoid' or Fascistic state-capitalist
bureaucracies, and must therefore count as another non-solution, and as, in
reality, either an acceleration of, or a prevenient, geo-peripheral attainment of, the very
«telos» of the totalitarian «taxis» of advanced/decadent capital.
* The dictatorship of a state-bureaucratic ruling class, whose grip on power, and
whose tenuous ruling-class-collectivist economic «de facto» 'ownership' claim on
the means of production, is political-only, and totally vulnerable to political
assault [unlike the case with a ruling class of private owners of capital] tends
to totalitarianism as the only effective defense of its ruling power.
It does so because any successful political challenge to such a ruling class
would mean its political replacement, and thus its total loss of ruling power.
If deposed politically, it is deposed totally.
Political totalitarianism is thus the "natural" form of political and economic
class self-defense for this kind of ruling class.
* The motive to multi-genocidal global totalitarianism aimed at by the
decadence-phase capitalist plutocracy, formed in the core regions of
advanced/decadent private-capital, is quite other than the motive described
above.
It arises with the decision of that plutocracy to reverse the historical growth
of the human-social forces of production, as its only defense against its
overthrow by the 'obsolescence depreciation' of its principal capital assets,
and by the formation of an educated, tendentially prosperous, and therefore
increasingly "ungovernable" [difficult to prostitute], "middle class" proletariat
world-wide, which much-further growth of the productive forces would bring.
This power-jeopardy of the advanced/decadent capitalist ruling class is
epitomized, in particular, by the prospect, for this petroleum / banking-centered
plutocracy, of the advent of the zero-radioactivity fuel regimes of controlled
nuclear fusion atomic power, as a superior and, thus, oil-obsolescing
alternative to its core power-asset in fossil-fuel-based molecular power.
It is epitomized, in general, by the way that rising, global, "middle-class"
levels of workers' living standards, health, education, and new, including
producers' cooperatives, entrepreneurial wealth, threaten the overthrow of this
plutocracy's exclusive power to rule, or of its power to rule exclusively.
The Econo-Political Institutional Infrastructure of the Initial Phase of
'Externality-Equities' Equitism.
The 'Externality-Equities' initial phase of 'Equitism' envisions the
constitutional-amendment provision and partially courts- and
legislatures-regulated operation of 'bicameral' boards of directors in all
capitalist enterprises of sufficient size and social externalities impact, with a 'second
house' of local-community-elected public directors in all local operating units
of such enterprises.
These 'publics' boards' would have constitutionally- and legislatively-ceded
authority over the 'externalities budgets', the 'quanto-qualitative',
externalities-production local annual operating plans of these enterprises.
These 'public boards' would thus represent, at the very heart of corporate governance, the
'externality-equities' owned collectively, in a collective property-rights,
public property-rights, or social-property-rights application of the "Coase
Theorem", by each such local-community's citizens, as public stakeholders, in
virtue of this, their newly-recognized and special kind of [social]-property right.
The traditional board of directors, and its delegates, representing the ownership
of 'internality-equities' by the traditional stockholders, would continue to
have authority over the dollar-/other-denominated, financial annual operating plan.
Discrepancies between the two operating plans would have to be negotiated
between the two "houses" in accord with the constitutionally and legislatively
mandated rules, with constitutionally and legislatively prescribed and regulated
judicial review and/or arbitration in the event of deadlock/negotiation-failure,
and with the losing side paying the costs of the court or arbitrator adjudication.
Any effort by the plutocracy to bribe the thousands of grass-roots public
directors elected in local communities all across the landscape would face
prohibitive costs and risks of exposure because of their vast multiplicity.
Such massive bribery would be rendered more difficult also by the base-level,
the radically "town-hall"-, "grass-roots"-democracy-restorationist character of
the institution of 'externality equities'; by the fact that the locally-resident
citizens eligible to be elected as public directors would be fighting to defend
their own families, their own homes, their own local communities, and their very lives —
e.g., from local toxic pollution, lethal to the lives of their children and of
their other loved ones, produced, typically, by nearby capitalistic firms, or
even produced by nearby 'stewardship-equity' producers-cooperatives, those in
which human decency is outstripped by desire for monetary earnings [hopefully
less typically] — in a way and from a vantage which would be very non-abstract,
very direct and personal, compared to the vantage of the traditional
long-distance/absentee central government legislator.
In any case, attempts by the plutocracy, and/or by their subordinate
lower-capitalist-class elements — elements technically termed 'the drooling
greedies' in our social-scientific nomenclature — to buy-off the vast number of
citizen-directors nationwide, and, eventually, worldwide, would break the
bribery budgets of even the super-richest of the super-rich.
The Emergence of a Global 'Association of Public Directors'.
It is expected that Associations of Public Directors, coordinating
'meta-enterprise' level policies at the local, regional, national, and
eventually, at the international levels, will "naturally" tend to emerge over
time, perhaps initially as a new kind of NGO [Non-Governmental Organization],
and to eventually become institutionalized, 'constitutionalized', and legally
'electorialized'.
This will create a situation of "dual power" between these new,
political-economic 'Associations of Associations', and the traditional,
political branches of capitalist social governance.
But this should not be posed as one of unstable "dual power", leading inevitably
to the monolithic "total victory" of one of the 'duals', and the "total
annihilation"/"abstract negation" of the other, «a la» the typical Leninoid
day-dreams in theory, and totalitarian nightmares in practice.
Rather, it should be grasped as the basis for a new, fourth branch of government
— of a partially democratized economic-governance branch — and of a dialectical,
«aufheben» conservation/elevation/transformation of the earlier three branches
of political government, leading to a government constituted by sustained
quadruple power, i.e., by the sustained mutual conflicts, or '''complex unity''',
of all four branches.
The new, democratic-economic governance branch would then exist in a higher,
stabilized, ongoing — and partially conflicts-conserving, conflicts-appropriating,
and conflicts-harnessing — dialectical 'uni-thesis', or '''complex unity''', with the three
earlier branches, thereby supplying economic checks and balances that the political branches
cannot supply, and that help to block the path, otherwise irresistible, toward those three
earlier branches' total prostitution and plutocratic totalitarian, humanocidal degeneration.
'Containment' and '''Real [Self-]Subsumption''' of the "Capital-Relation" within
the New Human-Social Relation of Production of 'Generalized Equity'.
These Associations of Public Directors would supply a geography-based
externalities 'container' and 'constrainer' for the many individual capitals
operating within a given locality or region — capitals otherwise relatively
'''abstracted''' and geographically indifferent; indifferent to the deleterious
impacts of the externalities they generate upon their local portions of
humanity.
These Associations would thus constitute the «monads», or units, of a
'Meta-Capital' entity, with each such «monad», or unit, of democratic-economic
governance, 'made up out of' a heterogeneous multiplicity of "individual
capitals" within its geographical locus-of-authority, in a democratic-jurisdictional sense.
These Associations would geo-demographically 'contain' and 'internalize/subsume'
the many capitals operating within their geographical jurisdictions, in terms
of, and placing checks and balances upon, the otherwise unlimited production of
externalities which the combination of gargantuan oligopolist agglomerations of
capital, their monopolized/prostituted mass media of communication, and their
prostitute, increasingly '''plutocracy-owned''' political governments would
otherwise unleash, and have already begun to unleash.
The "pure" private capital principle is a principle of private profit
maximization at any human social/externality cost.
It is limited, within the epoch of the «Kapitals»-system, only by political
checks, i.e., by economically-exteriorized, government legislature/bureaucracy
regulation, and by litigation-triggered judicial intervention, in a context
where these branches of government are increasingly prostituted to a few,
dominant agglomerations of internationalizing, plutocratic capital-ownership.
The Historical and Human-Social-Reproductive 'Terminality' of the 'Un-Contained'
Capital-Principle.
Thus, the capital principle, when in its full development, at zenith, in the
sub-epoch of its decadence — if not integrated within a higher socio-economic
principle, i.e., as it moves to become the organizing principle of global
society as a whole; of the human-social-reproductive totality, will become a
principle of monopolistic, omni-ravenous, socially-cannibalistic rapacity and
parasitic, vampiric malignancy; of unchecked, "absolute", and therefore
"absolutely corrupt" power, which will ravage and destroy the totality of human
society, the human species, and the planetary biosphere as a whole.
That capital-principle, as personified in the capitalist plutocracy, so becomes,
in an all-outcomes-vain attempt to defend its power-prerogatives.
That plutocracy sees those prerogatives as mortally threatened by the further
growth of the productive forces, as materialized in, and immanent in, the
improvement of majority [proletarian] standards of living, including standards
of [scientific and technological, etc.] education, world-wide, as required by
the growing "technical composition" [Marx] of capital -- and, therefore, by the
growing "technical composition" of labor as well, and by the accelerating
exposure of the fixed capital owned, or financed, by that plutocracy to
technological obsolescence depreciation as the [fixed-]constant capital
composition of total capital rises.
That plutocracy therefore, in the decadent phase of capitalist development,
begins to systematically attack those standards, and that technological
development.
The capitalist plutocracy attacks those working-class standards-of-living, and
that technological progress, via the various 'socially-atavistic',
'neo-feudaloid', "back-to-nature" ideologies that this plutocracy concocts, aiming
to dupe the producing majority into acquiescence in a catastrophic,
multi-genocidal -- humanocidal -- contraction of global human social
reproduction, as if "the survival of the biosphere" required such a massacre of
humanity that, in reality, the plutocracy requires, in its vain attempt to
hold-on to its rapacious power.
The «Aufheben» Historical [Self-]Negation of the Capital-Relation as Predominant
Social Relation of Production, Pre-Constructed by Analogy with Historically
Earlier Social Relations of Production 'Self-Revolutionizations'.
This 'meta-model' . . . predicts no undialectical, abstract negation of the
«Kapitals» social relations ontology.
It predicts no 'Jacobinoid-Leninoid' "absolute abolition"; no 'convolute'
extinction/total de-manifestation, and no fantasy, utopian de-materialization of
the "capital-relation".
The 'social praxis ontology' of the 'Raw Appropriation of Nature's
product[ion]s', or of "predation", did not vanish with/was not abolished by the
emergence of that of Goods / intra-tribal Gifts, although the former was partly
'''subsumed''' by the latter.
The Goods/Gifts 'socio-ontology' did not vanish with/was not abolished by the
emergence of that of Commodity-barter [although the former was partly
'''subsumed''' by the latter].
The bartered-Commodity 'socio-ontology' did not vanish with/was not abolished by
the emergence of that of Money-Commodities [although the former was partly
'''subsumed''' by the latter].
'The Monies social relation of production ontology' did not disappear with/was
not abolished by the emergence of that of «Kapitals» [although the former was
partly '''subsumed''' by the latter].
On the contrary —
The 'multi-Appropriation', or 'cross-Appropriation' socio-ontological category
of '''human production of fit[ted]-for-humans-by-humans use-values from "raw"
materials produced by pre-/extra-human Nature''', i.e., of human-Goods /
intra-tribal-"Gifts" production . . . first emerged as merely a new «species» of
the «genos»; of the 'human Appropriation of Nature's product[ion]s in
"Raw"/virtually unimproved [for humans] form' «genos».
But this new ... «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ...
«genos»-«monads», or '''units''', of "Goods" — soon out-self-reproduced, in rate,
& dominated the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the
"Raw" Appropriation... «genos», at such a rate, and to such an extent, that the
new ... Goods" «arithmos» became, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the
memes — of the humans who animated it, ever since, a new «genos»-«arithmos»
in its own right; a [new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different]
'gen'-eralization of the '''Raw Appropriation of extra-human Nature''' «genos».
Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' Goods «genos» [re-]acted back
upon, 're-fluxed' upon, its predecessor «genos», initially only subsuming that
predecessor «genos» '''formally''', by virtue of ... having become the new,
'meristemal', leading paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of
human social-forces-of-production, praxis.
But, eventually, that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «genos»;
it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' that predecessor «genos»,
yielding a "complex unity" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in that of a
tool-equipped [weapons-equipped -- M.D.] [i.e., '''Goods'''-equipped] hunting
praxis, and in that of a tool-equipped digging/plant-appropriating/metals-'''mining'''
praxis, and in other such new human social phenomena, which are denoted,
collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by the "hybrid
term"/'socio-ontological qualifier' ... .
Likewise, the 'exchange-use', or 'exchange-use-value' socio-ontological category
of [pre-Money] Commodity barter, ... first emerged as merely a new «species» of
the ["Goods" -- M.D.] «genos»; of the '''human production of
fit[ted]-for-humans-by-humans use-values, from "raw" materials produced by the
pre-/extra-human Nature''' "Raw" Appropriation «genos».
But this new, ... «species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ...
«monads», or '''units''', of 'barterables'; of '''Commodities''' — soon
out-self-reproduced, in rate, & dominated the population, or «arithmos», of the «monads»
['''units'''] of the ...["Goods" --M.D.] «genos», at such a rate and to such an
extent that the new ... ["bartered Commodities" -- M.D.] «arithmos» became,
'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animated
it, ever since, a new «genos»-«arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher,
qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the
Goods, [use-]value «genos»; a new kind of [use-]value: '''exchange-[use-]value'''.
Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' bartered-Commodities «genos»
[re-]acted back upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene», initially only
subsuming those predecessor «gene» '''formally''', by virtue of ...
[Commodities-barter -- M.D.] trading having become the new, 'meristemal',
leading practice-paradigm of human social-relations-of-production, and of
human social-forces-of-production, praxis, initially at the boundaries where distinct,
otherwise warring, tribal communities met.
But, eventually, with the growth of its «arithmos», or population, reflecting
the further growth of the human-social forces of production, that new «genos» of
inter-tribal Commodity-barter '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «gene»; it
largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene»,
yielding new, '''complex unity''' 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of
the 'praxes' of barter-trading in "raw" goods, as well as in "finished" goods;
in the emergence of intra-tribal barter, supplanting the intra-tribal '''Gift'''
ethic and "insurance"/social risk management praxis, as extension of a barter praxis which,
in its beginnings, was restricted to [predominantly war-like, or
'''humans-hunting-and-gathering-other-/"foreign"-tribe/alien-humans''']
'inter-tribal' relations, and in other such new human-social phenomena, which
are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation, by "hybrid
terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as ... .
Again, the 'general-exchangeables', or 'general-equivalents' socio-ontological
category of Money-mediated Commodity exchange, herein denoted by ..., first
emerged as merely a new «species» of the ... '''barterable Commodity''' «genos»
— as that new Commodity-«species» known, in the Marxian tradition, by the name
'''Money-Commodity''' — a socio-ontological category which tends, over
historical time, for 'praxical' reasons, to devolve upon a precious-metal
Commodity, such as silver, or gold; the Commodity «species» of '''specie'''.
But this new, ... ["Money-Commodities" , or "Privileged-Commodites" -- M.D.]
«species» — its burgeoning population, or «arithmos», of ["Money-Commodities" --
M.D.] «monads», or '''units''', of 'gen-eral equivalents'; of the
'''Money-Commodities''' — soon out-self-reproduced & dominated the population,
or «arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ["baterable Commodity" --
M.D.] «genos», in perceived economic "value", at such a rate and to such an
extent that the new ... ["Money-Commodities" -- M.D.] «arithmos» became,
'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the humans who animated
it, ever since, a new «genos»-«arithmos» in its own right; a [new, higher,
qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization of the
bartered-Commodity exchange-[use-]value «genos».
Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' Monies «genos» [re-]acted back
upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene», initially only subsuming those
predecessor «gene» '''formally''', by virtue of ...[Monies -- M.D.]-mediated
circulation of Commodities having become the new, 'meristemal', leading paradigm
of human social-relations-of-production, and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.
But, eventually, with the further growth of the level of the human-social forces of production,
or of "productivity", that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its predecessor «gene»;
it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene»,
yielding "'complex unity'" 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of
the 'praxes' of the sale of "raw" extractions from pre-/extra-human Nature in
exchange for Monies, instead of via Commodities-Barter, as well as the exchange
of "finished" goods for Monies; in the emergence of "dues" & "tithes" and /
'''redistributive Gifting"' of Monies, rather than of just "Goods" "in kind",
to the temple/state, in the emergence of intra-tribal Monies-mediated exchanges
of Commodities, at least partially supplanting the earlier-emergent intra-tribal
Commodities-Barter praxis, of inter-tribal, inter-city-state, etc., tributes "paid" in Monies form,
as well as in "in-kind Goods and/or Commodities" forms, and in other such new human social
phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation,
by "hybrid terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as ... .
Finally, to-date, the 'Money-Making-More-Money', or 'auto-catalytic
exchange-value' socio-ontological category of «Kapitals», herein denoted by ...,
first emerged as merely a new «species» of the ... [Monies-mediated Circulations
of Commodities -- M.D.] «genos»; of the '''universal-equivalent Money''' «genos»
— as the circulation-based, non-production-based, quasi-parasitic
Money-«species» known theoretically, in the Marxian tradition, as the
"'antediluvian «species» of Capital'" — e.g., as '''merchants' money-capital''',
as '''usurers money-capital''' -- and also in the form of «latifundia» slave-worked
plantation agricultural productive capital, etc.
But this new, ... [«Kapitals» -- M.D.] «species» — its burgeoning population, or
«arithmos», of ...[«Kapitals» -- M.D.] «monads», or '''units''', of
'''Money-Capitals''' — soon out-self-reproduced & dominated the population, or
«arithmos», of the «monads» ['''units'''] of the ... [Monies -- M.D.] «genos»,
at such a rate and to such an extent that the new ...[«Kapitals» -- M.D.]
«arithmos» became, 'psycho-historically' — in the minds, in the memes — of the
humans who animate it, ever since, a new «genos»-«arithmos» in its own right; a
[new, higher, qualitatively different, socio-ontologically-different] 'gen'-eralization
of the Monies exchange-value «genos».
Indeed, this irruption of the new 'meristemal' «Kapitals» «genos» [re-]acted
back upon, 're-fluxed upon', its predecessor «gene». It initially subsumed
those predecessor «gene» only '''formally''', by virtue of ...[«Kapitals» --
M.D.]-mediated, mercantile, Money-buying and Money-selling of
'''Commodity-Capital''', and by the extraction of ['''usurious''' rates of]
interest as the "price" for borrowing Money, or [mercantile] Capital, having become
the new, leading, 'meristemal' paradigm of human social-relations-of-production,
and of human social-forces-of-production, praxis.
But, eventually, with the further growth of the l;evel of "the human-social forces of production",
or of the 'social self-productivity of humanity', that new «genos» '''really''' subsumed its
predecessor «gene»; it largely '''appropriated'' and '''hybridized with''' those predecessor «gene»,
yielding '''complex unity''' 'socio-ontology', as exemplified in the emergence of
the 'praxes' of the mercantile offering of products produced in non-household
production facilities, facilities owned and provisioned by merchant/manufacturer
capitalists, who also buy labor-capability as if '''just another''' Commodity-supply
for their production facilities, from labor-capability sellers/'''alienators''',
just as they bought, as Commodities, raw materials and tools for those same
production facilities, from other merchant/manufacturer capitalists; in the
emergence of 'praxes' of the production of "raw" extractions from extra-human
Nature as Commodity-Capital on the same basis, by merchant/manufacturer/mining
capitalists -- instead of by, e.g., family-producers, seeking merely supplementary
Monies for their own consumption-needs [needs not met by their own household
production directly], thus family-producers, etc., who are not seeking self-expanding
«Kapital»-value, ever-expanding via profit, by means of the exchange of their
'''mere''' Commodities, for Monies -- and in the emergence of other such new
human social phenomena, which are denoted, collectively, in the Encyclopedia Dialectica
notation, by "hybrid terms"/'socio-ontological qualifiers' such as ... .
Therefore, we also expect that, and predict that, immediately after its irruption
from out of ...[the «Kapitals arithmos» -- M.D.], that the new «species» of equity of the
human-social-relations-of-production ontology of 'generalized equity', denoted
herein by ..., will enter into a "formal subsumption" of the entire predecessor,
already partially «Kapitals»-subsumed ... 'socio-ontology', due to its new,
...[Generalized Equity -- M.D.] 'social-relations logic' having become the new
leading, 'meristemal' practice-paradigm of human-social relations-of-production,
and of human-social forces-of-production, praxis.
However, with time, later, we expect this new, now ...[Generalized -- M.D.]
«genos» of '''generalized equity''', developing as a new, higher, qualitatively
different, socio-ontologically-different 'gen'-eralization of the «Kapital»-equity
«genos», to accede to the '''real''' subsumption all of its predecessor «gene»,
especially of the «Kapital»-subsumed «gene»; to largely '''appropriate'' and
'''hybridize with''' those predecessor «gene», yielding new, '''complex unity'''
'socio-ontology', as epitomized by the Encyclopedia Dialectica notation
"hybrid term"/'socio-ontological qualifier' for the 'culminant' socio-ontological
category, ... .
The latter denotes the 'real subsumption' of the entire, decadent, '''real
domination of «Kapital»''', «Kapitals»-system by the new human-social
relation-of-production of 'gen-eralized equity', as denoted by ...:
...
That is, this ... 'meta-model' anticipates, in "meta-fractal" analogy with, and
in continuity/consistency with, all of these earlier 'meta-evolutionary' and
'meta-system' transitions identified in this 'meta-model', the dialectical,
«aufheben» 'annulment-cum-elevation-cum-conservation' of the "capital-relation",
via an appropriate 'containment' of, or 'self-internalization' by, and
[self-]subsumption / "real domination" of Capital within, the
'meta-monadologically' higher social principle of 'Generalized Equity', as
sketched above.
The Emergence of a Fourth, Economic Branch of Democratic Econo-Political Social
Governance, in Sustained Quadruple Power with the Earlier Three, Political
Branches.
This 'meta-model' envisions the retention and conservation / transformation of
the three traditional branches of political government, into a complex,
conflictual, and conflicts-conserving unity of sustained quadruple-power with,
and «vis-a-vis», the new, 'economic-democratic' fourth branch, thus yet further
generalizing the stabilized, conflicts-conserving, checks-and-balances-delivering
'''complex unity''' of the earlier-emerged, three, political branches.
It also envisions the subordination, or "demoting", but not the absolute dissolution, of the capital-principle.
Thus, is the plutocratic, oligopoly/monopoly-capital-principle expected to be blocked, by popular power, from any longer attempting to organize, and to subjugate, the global social totality.
A higher and democratic, humanistic, 'justitial' principle of social ordering supersedes Capital in that role: the principle of 'Generalized Equity'.
But the latter principle allows the capital-principle, e.g., of price-competition and competition for
customer-adherence, to persist in operation where it best orchestrates the extant hybridization,
or '''complex unity'', of genomic and/with '''phenomic''' human nature, providing vitally needed
economic checks & balances that private-monopoly and state-monopoly economic governance
so devastatingly lack. . . . [this connects to another of the proposed "Generalized Equity"
human rights institutions, that named "Citizen Stewardship Equity", by which the non-capital-owning majority of humanity gain democratic access to the means of [social re-]production]."
For full article, see --
http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm
Regards,
Miguel
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