Capitalism’s Fatal ‘‘‘Auto-Immune Disease’’’, Part 01: ‘Seldon on Capitalism’ Series.
GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.]
Office of Public Liaison, and
as a voting member of F.E.D.,
to share with
you, from
time to time, as
they
are approved
for public release by
the F.E.D.
General Council, key
excerpts
from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder,
Karl Seldon.
The
first such release in this new series is posted below [Some E.D.
standard edits have been applied, in the version presented
below, by the
editors of the Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s
discourse].
This 1st installment addresses ‘the fatal auto-immune disease’ of the capitalist system, first identified by Karl Marx.
Seldon:
“...Capitalism
suffers, in effect, from a fatal
‘auto-immune disease’.”
“Capitalism-induced
growth of productivity -- “growth of the
social forces of production” [Marx] destroys capital -- i.e., it increasingly net
devalues the accumulated capital-value of the concentrated owners
of capital-value, once the fixed capital intensity of industrial production
rises sufficiently, eventually turning a key, ruling faction of those owners
against the competitive capitalist system itself.”
“That
is, this ‘‘‘auto-immune disease’’’ is that of the capitals-system’s immanent
expanded self-reproduction and accumulation of capital-value turning against itself, and net-destroying
capital-value, as a result of the accelerating net [techno-]depreciation of [especially
fixed-]capital-value, a turning
that capitalism itself immanently creates by incentivizing an accelerating
growth of productivity -- growth of the social productive force of its
productive industrial capital -- through the competitive pursuit of,
especially, relative surplus-value, and as expressed in the growing ‘fixed-capital
intensity’ of industrial capitalist productive capital relative to the other capital-forms.”
“Thereby,
more productive, newer vintages of fixed capital competitively devalue
older vintages of fixed capital value, by rendering them obsolete
and unprofitable to use due
to competition from the newer vintages. The lost capital value due to this technodepreciation must be
written-off against gross profits, whose recurrence may lead to a
prolonged secular fall in the capitalist industrial rate of profit, or rate of
return on fixed capital investment.”
“The
violent social policy reaction of the capitalist ruling class to this fruition
of the ascendence phase of capitalism, circa 1913, then ushered in the descendence phase
of the global capitalist system. ...”
“The
key problem of capitalist society that blocks social equity, in the context of this ‘technodepreciation threat’ to the power of the
‘descendence phase’ capitalist
ruling class ruling faction, is the fact that,
under the capitalist system, most of the income generated by the entire society
-- more and more of the new wealth produced and added to society,
by society, annually -- goes to an ever-shrinking tiny minority
of the population.”
“This
process gives that tiny minority, the concentrated owners of
capital-value, an inordinate potential to subvert and misdirect the interests
of the majority -- of the working classes -- i.e., enormous and
ever-growing potential to subvert capitalist representative democracy -- even
that modicum of democracy which is potential under the capitalist system.”
“Because
of the ‘technodepreciation threat’ to the accumulated
capital-value of this ruling minority of capitalists, this dire
threat to their vast capital-properties, hence the ‘technodepreciation threat’ to their very economic and political-economic power to rule, and to continue reaping
the “perks” of power that they so obsessively crave, this “ruling faction”
minority comes to see human progress -- scientific
progress [unless applied solely to weaponry], technological progress [again, unless
applied solely to weaponry, means of police-state social surveillance, etc.], social progress, and political progress -- as a mortal
threat to their ruling power.”
“The
capitalist system’s immanent development -- once industrial capitalism’s fixed
capital intensity of core industrial productive capital crosses a definite
threshold, relative to other forms of capital -- thus gives this
ruling faction a growing motivation to attack that progress in ways
which further diminish social equity, and, indeed, increasingly undermine the
very ‘meta-Darwinian
fitness’ of the global human species itself -- namely, to undermine the
sustained rate of
expanded self-reproduction of the ‘human onto-mass’ or ‘socio-mass’ of human
population itself, and of its life-and-reproduction-supportive artifacts, which
rate is also the
core metric of the [human-]soci[et]al [self-re]productive [self-]force.”
“This
expanded self-reproduction of humanity -- if the fetters of this
ruling faction, and of the capital-social-relation-of-production which spawned
it, are overcome -- would eventually enable humanity to spread itself beyond
its original home planet.”
“Humanity
will do so, if we are
successful, in time, in transcending our capitalist integument, and in
overcoming the increasingly state-capitalist,
police-state-totalitarian,
and ‘humanocidal’
rule of humanity’s present, descendence phase capitalist ruling class ruling faction, i.e., the Rockefeller,
‘Rocke-Nazi’, “Eugenics”, “People Are
Pollution”, “Environmentalist”
faction, which has long since “graduated” from targeting individual ethnic groups
for genocide, to targeting
“95%” of humanity, of all ethnic groups, for
‘humanocide’.” --
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Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
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