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Conditions for the Regeneration of a Global Marxian Socialist Movement . . ..
Conditions for the
Regeneration of a Global Marxian Socialist Movement, for the Transcendence [«Aufheben»] of the Capitalist System, in and by a Global Renaissance of Human Flourishing, hand in hand with the irruption of Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.
Dear Reader,
We of F.E.D. wish to share with you our
view as to the minimum necessary conditions for a global regeneration of the
Marxian movement, as a movement capable of helping humanity to pull out of the
present, [state-]capitalist ruling-class-driven global death-spiral, and to
achieve the first global
renaissance in our planet’s
history, in a process that leads to the concrete, practical transcendence of
the present, 'descendence-phase' capitalist system, and to a global ascendence to
the ‘planetary polis’ stage of human-social evolution -- to a global, grassroots
political-economic democracy, thereby inaugurating the
‘Unification Era’ [U.E.] of Terran human history.
As we see it, these minimum conditions are the
following --
·
Overcome the Leninist
Perversion of Marxian Theory.
The worst fate for Marxian theory, a theory dedicated to the most
thoroughgoing critique of all ideology, especially that of the
ideology-vitiated, ruling-class-perverted science of classical bourgeois
‘political-economics’, was to be itself mis-appropriated by, and suppressed
within, a vicious new ruling-class “legitimating” ideology. Yet such was a ‘Marxianly’ predictable interim
fate for Marxian theory. Political
intellectuals in the semi-periphery of the geographical capitalist core, its
native private capitalist classes suppressed and prostituted by the power of
the imperialism of the capitalist ruling classes of that geographical core,
sought, as a way out of imperialist immiseration, in effect, a new pathway for
the “primitive accumulation” and industrialization of their nation-states. They perverted Marxian theory into the
ideology of “Marxism-Leninism”, an ideology to support the one-party,
totalitarian police-state rule of a state-capitalist state-bureaucratic ruling
class, that violently exploited their working classes in order to accumulate
the industrial base needed to form military-industrial complexes capable of
defending that bureaucratic ruling class from invasion and overthrow by the
armies of the voracious imperialist nation-states of the capitalist core. Vicious state-capitalist totalitarian
nationalism was fraudulently sold to the world as the very definition of
Marxian “socialism”, via an antagonistic cooperation between the ruling classes
of “pure-state-bureaucratic”, Stalinist state-capitalism, and the
proto-Fascist, mixed, private-capitalist-ruling-class-subordinated state-bureaucratic-class
state-capitalism in the original geographical core of the capitalist
system. Marxian theory was blamed for
the monstrous evil of Lenino-Trotskyoid, Stalino-Maoid totalitarianism,
mirror-seconding the global evil of traditional capitalist imperialism. Marxian theory became globally discredited as
a result.
A regenerated Marxian movement must echo Marx’s own statement, when he noted the early ideological re-degenerations of many who claimed to be his followers, that: ‘“As for myself, I am not a Marxist”’.
No Marxian theory that fails to thoroughly and comprehensively critique the Leninist perversion can ever hope to regain credibility with, and the trust of, humanity at large -- or to deserve that credibility and trust.
·
Reject all Forms of
State-Capitalism as Any Kind of “Alternative” to
Capitalism. The “[political-]
economic law of motion of modern [capitalist] society” that Marx’s critique of
political economy sought to “lay bare” includes the ‘taxis to totalitarian, humanocidal state-capitalism’ as the predictable
end-state of the development of “the capital-relation” and of the
socio-political-economic system that constructs itself around that social
relation of production, as Engels announced in Anti-Duhring. The alternative to the “mutual ruin of the
contending classes” -- indeed, to the self-extinction of the human species --
that this ‘taxis’ entails, is an alternative that requires, to be actualized,
the global, concerted active-intervention of the vast, non-ruling-class
majority of humanity. That alternative
is global, grassroots political-economic democracy, such as that outlined in
the ‘Equitarian’ constitutional amendments and enabling legislation, drafts of
which have been posted to this blog. No
Marxian movement that “settles for” state-capitalism has any hope of positive
contribution to human liberation, nor does it deserve the ear of planetary
humanity.
·
Renounce “Taking
State Power”. The
Neroan/Caligulan perversion of human character, brought about by power-lust,
and by unchecked power, has been evident in the fraudulent “Marxist-Leninist
movement”, from Lenin to Trotsky to Stalin to Mao to their diminutive, tin-pot
progeny, from Castro to Pol Pot to Un.
As a correction
of this horrific past, a new, regenerated, real Marxian movement should embrace
the design of real socialist constitutions, laws, and institutions -- political-economic democratic constitutions, laws, and institutions
-- that build thoroughgoing forms of, not just political-only
checks and balances, such as those that
characterize the constitutions of the most successful capitalist nation-states,
but economic checks and balances as well. Moreover, as a “correction of the past”, and
a key gesture in re-winning the trust of humanity at
large, new, regenerated Marxian organizations should pledge to never “take
state power”, either by putschist violence,
or by democratic election, but should, on the contrary, promise to stay outside
of the offices of future, real
socialist governments, and, instead, to serve as relentless critics of any tendencies toward dictatorial
abuse of power by such new, real socialist governments, in
their implementation of the constitutions,
laws, and institutions of political-economic democracy.
·
Commit
to «Aufheben»-Preserve/-Advance the “Rule of Law” Heritage of Political-Only Democracy. A new, regenerated Marxian movement must
renounce lawless “revolutionary” violence, “cults of personality” arbitrary
rule by “Marxist” dictators, and the abrogation of the “Rule of Law” heritage
that, in however flawed a manner, militated against dictatorship in the most
successful capitalist, representative democracies, although -- and because -- that “Rule of Law” too
is now deteriorating in the global,
ruling-classes-driven undertow toward state-capitalist totalitarianism. As Marx announced in his address to the
meeting of the First International at the Hague, the transition to socialism
should be by non-violent, electoral politics in those nation-states where
representative democracy with full working-class suffrage reigns, and where a
sufficient majority of the populace embraces that transition. The transition away from Stalinist
state-capitalism in what was named the “U.S.S.R.”, but never was “Socialist”,
nor, for long, “Soviet” [workers-council-democracy-based], was accomplished
with little violent intervention by the Stalinist Secret Police and Army,
because of the degree of the ‘majoritarianism’ of the popular rejection of the
Stalinist dictatorship. That this
transition collapsed, later, into mixed, private-capitalist/state-capitalist
authoritarianism is a testament, primarily, to the remaining, un-overthrown power
of the U.S. ruling class in particular to impose and enforce an authoritarian,
state-capitalist abortion of that anti-Stalinist movement, and to the
subsequent, nationalist reaction to that ruinous imposition and enforcement.
·
Commit
to Enforce, and Advance, the Human Rights Established in Human History
Thus Far. a regenerated Marxian movement must, as such, utterly
reject police state rule, the state-bureaucratic “dictatorship over the proletariat”, fraudulently
sold as “the dictatorship of
the proletariat”. It mus demand the full
implementation, globally, of the bill of human rights that has come to be
broadly recognized, worldwide, so far in human history, including in recent,
capitalist human history, and work to extend those human rights further, beyond
the capitalist horizon, e.g., to include the ‘Equitarian’ human rights recognized
and advocated in this blog as necessary to human flourishing, and described
here under the names ‘Citizen Externality
Equity’, ‘Citizen Birthright
Equity’, and ‘Citizen Stewardship
Equity’.
·
No
More “Bait-and-Switch”
-- “Come Clean” and “Put
All of Our Cards on the Table”, By Clearly
Defining the
“Socialism” that We Seek. The suffering humanity that was promised, by
the fraudulent “Marxists”, a way out of their capitalist misery,
suffered a “bait-and-switch”: what they
got, instead of liberation, was state-capitalist, totalitarian, mass-murderous
dictatorship. A regenerated,
truly-Marxian movement must break completely with this horrific “heritage” of
lies, by spelling out, in great detail, what it means by “socialism”, and what
new constitutions, or constitutional amendments, what new laws, and what new
institutions it seeks to construct to bring that “socialism” into actuality. The majority
population must know exactly
what it is voting for when it votes for candidates pledged to work for real socialism. The
‘Equitist’ constitutional amendments, enabling laws, and newly-recognized
fundamental human rights that we have documented in this
blog represent the beginnings of our contributions in this
regard.
·
Renounce
the “Outlawing” of Religions, of Private Property, and of
Capitalism Itself. Outlawings
of religions, of private property, of private capital, and of private
capitalism itself are the acts of a totalitarian, ideology-dependent,
state-capitalist, police-state dictatorship, seeking to consolidate its power
against the threat of any and every kind of potential ideological and political
opposition. In the historical evolution
and ‘meta-evolution’ of the human “social relations of production”, driven by
the growth of the human “social forces of production”, such ideologies must be
allowed to “wither away” of their own accord, if such dictatorial degeneration
is to be averted. Such “social relations
of production” as private property in the means of production, and “the
capital-relation” itself, as dominating “social relation of production”, must
be out-competed by the new “social
relations of production” of real
socialist society, such as
the new “individual property” [cf. Marx, Capital]
represented, herein, under the name of “Generalized
Equity”, and of “Citizen
Stewardship Equity” in particular. The state-persecution of those who cling to
religious ideologies, and/or to waning capitalist “social relations of
production”, has no place whatsoever in real
socialism -- in political-economic democracy.
For more information regarding,
and for [further] instantiations of, these Seldonian insights, please see --
For ‘poster-izations’ of many of these insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
SOLUTION –
‘Equitist
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’;
BOOK:
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BLUEPRINTS
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Thursday, March 07, 2019
Real Socialism Means 3 New Forms of Property for Each Citizen.
Real
Socialism Means 3 New Forms of Property for Each Citizen, NOT even deeper proletarian “property-less-ness’.
Dear Readers,
The old capitalist-ideological bug-a-boo to the effect that
socialism or communism means the absolute abolition of all property, including
the abolition of personal property -- i.e., “sharing your toothbrush” -- may
have had some foundation in the practices of early Maoist-Stalinist state-capitalism, masquerading as its
most extreme opposite, real
socialism.
But this malarkey has absolutely no foundation in the
“scientific socialism” articulated by Marx and Engels.
Engels in particular, in “Anti-Duhring”,
emphasized the opposition
of state-capitalism
and real socialism.
Even if this “abolition” is confined to “the abolition of
private property”, with “private property” defined as capital, especially in
the form of “property in the means of [social re]production”, this concept
belongs to the violent, coercive, and dictatorial regimes of especially
Stalinist state-capitalism,
not to real
socialism.
In the Stalinist species of “semi-peripheral” national state-capitalism,
a Stalinist, neo-Jacobinoid, putschist “Communist” Party, may achieve a coup
d’état, against the state power of a weak, backward, comprador national
private-capitalist ruling class, which, typically, has been emasculated by the
imperialism, and by the military interventionism, of foreign capital, wielded
by the strong private-capitalist classes of the original capitalist core
nation-states.
A successful such coup may then allow that Stalinist Party
to form a dictatorial “One-Party State”.
This “One Party” then becomes the nucleus around which a
new, state-bureaucratic, state-capitalist,
totalitarian ruling class may form.
The “abolition of private property in the means of
production” simply means that this new Stalinist, state-bureaucratic, state-capitalist ruling class uses the violent,
coercive apparatus of the state to expropriate the private capitalist class,
transferring by this thievery the property of that comprador bourgeoisie to the
new ruling class, including by means of legislation outlawing private capital.
The new, state-bureaucratic ruling class does this, NOT to “free the proletariat”, but,
precisely to secure its own monopoly on all capital, its collective ownership
of the means of production, over against the wage-working class, now viciously
exploited by this state-bureaucratic ruling class itself, in place of their
former exploitation by their former private-capitalist national ruling class, the
one that this new, state-capitalist ruling class has “liquidated”, and also in
place of the workers’ former exploitation by the imperialist international
capitalists, whom the new ruling class expels, e.g., by military force.
All of these ‘abolishmental’ terms and phrases mis-translate variants of
the Marxian, dialectical term «aufheben» -- raised up out of colloquial German
by Hegel, to champion the very opposite
of “abstract negation” -- to the word “abolition”, a word which does not even
preserve the ‘dialectical, determinate negation’ moment of the meaning of the
core-dialectical term «aufheben», but which connotes, precisely, absolute
“abstract negation”, suppressing entirely the other moments of the meaning of
“«aufheben»” -- “elevation” and “conservation”.
What the construction of real socialism requires is the ‘«aufheben»-ation’ of private-capitalist
property -- in actual, daily human social praxis, and in the actual,
organically-arising social relations of production -- and NOT the “abstract negation”
abolition of private-capitalist property, which, in actuality, only gets you to
state-property, to wage-slavery on behalf of the state-bureaucratic ruling
class, to the misery of the liberty-less “life” of the totalitarian police state
which the state-bureaucratic ruling class sets up to protect its political-only
claims to power -- i.e., to still-capitalist, state-capitalist property.
This mis-translation has well-served the interests of both
the Stalinist state-capitalist, state-bureaucratic ruling classes, and the
capitalist core ruling classes, themselves also verging toward a different --
“Fascist” -- species of totalitarian state-capitalism, in the ‘antagonist
cooperation’ between these two pseudo-opposites.
This mis-translation has cripplingly ‘dis-served’ the
interests of the majority of humanity, the working classes, for it has formed
part of the still largely successful ideological attempt to ideologically blind
that majority to the real
alternative to the
vicious, totalitarian, ‘humanocidal’ end-state to which all forms of national
capitalism “lawfully” converge.
They all “lawfully” converge to Orwellian, Malthusian,
‘‘‘Eugenocidal’’’ -- ‘humanocidal’ -- state-capitalism.
The alternative to that horrific demise of humanity is ‘Grass-Roots,
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’.
As Marx made clear in volume 3 of his Capital,
the seeds of real
socialism, emerging within modern capitalism, are to be found in two
transitional, ‘intra-dual’, “self-contradictory” forms --
(1) the joint-stock company principle of
“capital-equity” -- of economic democracy for capitalists only, in the form of
capital stock shares-based voting; ‘shareholders’ democracy’ -- however much
that principle may be honored mainly in the breach in today’s hyper-corrupt,
degenerated core capitalism;
(2) workers-owned industrial producers’
cooperatives -- ‘workers’ capital’; ‘workers’ capitalism’.
The new, core ‘social relation of production’ that is to
form the social basis of real
socialism cannot be imposed by legislation, by state decree, and by the
violent, coercive ‘expropriatory activity’ of the national state-bureaucracy, and
its police-state police, in favor of its own monopoly ownership of society’s
property.
That way leads only to the Orwellian nightmare of end-stage
state-capitalism.
As Marx makes clear, at the end of the penultimate chapter
of volume I of his Capital, real socialism is founded upon
-- not the absolute, “abstract negation” of all property,
but on the formation of a new kind of workers’ property, of property for the
producing majority, the former wage-labor “proletariat” -- “individual property”, in the context of
a kind of ‘‘‘social property’’’ that is NOT
state-property.
[Marx]: “The capitalist mode of
appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces
capitalist private property.”
“This is the first negation of individual private property,
as founded on the labour of the proprietor.”
“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of
a law of Nature, its own [F.E.D.:
«aufheben»] negation.”
“It is the negation of the negation.”
[F.E.D.:
i.e., it is the ‘[re-]«aufheben»-ation of the [earlier] «aufheben»-ation’.].
“This does not re-establish private property of the producer
[F.E.D.: i.e., the dialectical process is not the
“Flatland”, gain-less, viciously-circular process of formal logic -- P = ~~P -- but is ‘gain-ful’, and better
‘metaphorized’ by an upward-opening helical
course of development], but gives him individual
property based on the acquisitions of the capitalist era: i.e., on co-operation and the
possession in common of the land and of the means of production.” [Capital, volume
I., New World, p. 763].
In our, Seldonian, view, this real socialist,
new-social-relation-of-production-expressing “individual property” involves three new species of “grass-roots”,
non-capital equity property, owned by each
citizen, as such, as a matter of fundamental human right [at the
capitalistically attained, and then capitalistically regressed, and
socialistically, ‘renewedly’-growing level of the social forces of production].
These newly-recognized fundamental human rights CAN be established constitutionally, within the rule-of-law of capitalist nation-states, in each national “Bill
of Rights”.
This can only be achieved as the fruition of a
sufficiently-majoritarian, non-violent, law-abiding movement, within national-majority working classes,
reflecting an inter-national non-violent, rule-of-law-compliant movement of those working-classes, without
requiring any juridical “abolition” of capital, but creating a new
social-relations-of-production context in which the capital-social-relation-of-production
is likely to increasingly “wither-away” --
1. Citizen
Externality Equity -- A grass-roots, local, collective property human right regarding the
pollution, etc., “externalities” produced by remaining private capitalist and
by socialized producers’-cooperative enterprises. This right is exercised by each
citizen-resident of each locality, by voting their equal “share” in the
‘externality-equity property’ of that locale, in elections of ‘Public Directors’,
to ‘Boards of Public Directors’ operating inside
each externality-producing, e.g., polluting, enterprise, checking and balancing,
by negotiation with each such enterprise’s local management committee, regarding
the ‘externalities budget’ in the Annual Operating Plans of that enterprise,
with recourse to a popularly-elected [and popularly recallable] ‘Tribunal for
Externality Equity’ in the event of deadlock in those negotiations. Enterprises would no longer be allowed to
commit ‘mass murder by pollution’ for profit.
This new property right is individual
property in the context of
a collective property solution to the “market
failures” of capitalism.
2. Citizen Birthright Equity
-- Every citizen, regardless of the “side of the tracks” upon which they were
born, is granted, from birth, as a fundamental human right of birth, a personal
‘socialized trust fund’. This fund would
be their personal property, but would have legal
constraints on its expenditure in light of its provision, to each individual,
from the resources of the whole society. This fundamental human right is designed to
provide a unified, ultra-portable social safety net to each individual, plus
access to the basic opportunities of human life -- medical care, education, home
purchase, unemployment insurance, etc. -- regardless of that individual’s
family connections or income level. It
constitutes a form of ‘societal self-investment’, and gives society a stake in
each individual citizen, and each individual citizen “skin in the game”, a
stake in society, something gained from their society, and also something to
lose in the event of victimizing, criminal, anti-social conduct by that
individual. That is, courts, by law, order
portions of, up to all of, a jury-convicted criminal’s ‘socialized trust funds’
to go in reparation for damages to the victim(s) of jury-declared crimes by
that individual, so that the crime-committing individual forfeits part or all of
their former individual property in the assigned ‘socialized trust
fund’, and is left, e.g., after incarceration, to fall back upon a more meager
general social welfare safety net.
3. Citizen Stewardship Equity -- The property-right,
and fundamental human right, of business-plan-qualifying collectives of
citizen’s to self-organize socialized, mutually-competing producers’
cooperatives, competing also against remaining capitalist firms in their field;
co-ops internally managed democratically,
e.g., by votings, to elect -- and to recall, if needed -- the cooperative’s
management board, and/or its individual managers, etc., by the majority of the members
of that collective enterprise, or “association of producers”. Qualifying collectives are granted stewardship [not local ownership] of means of
production, from out of the stock of Social Property, according to their
Social-Bank-qualified business plan -- qualified by a
Citizen-Stewardship-Equity, democratically self-managed ‘Social Bank
cooperative’, itself competing against other ‘Social Bank cooperatives’, and
against remaining-capitalist financing sources.
Each citizen-member of each such cooperative personally owns an “individual property” of membership rights in that
socialized producers’ cooperative, which cannot be removed from that member
without due process of law. This “individual property” entitles each
member to two streams of personal income by virtue of their membership -- to an
equal share in the net operating surplus of their co-op, as well as to
compensation for the work that they contribute thereto, in accord with their
skill-level, performance, etc.
For more information regarding,
and for [further] instantiations of, these Seldonian insights, please see --
For ‘poster-izations’ of many of these insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
SOLUTION –
‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC
DEMOCRACY’;
BOOK:
MARX’S MISSING
BLUEPRINTS
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