‘A Dialogue on the PRESENT ‘Descendence Phase’ of the Capitalist System.’

 

‘[Excerpt from] A Dialogue on the PRESENT ‘Descendence Phase’ of the Capitalist System.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

This is to share the following recent dialogue-excerpt with you --

 

[First Discussant]: “Déclassé means having fallen in social status.”

 

“The generation of people called millennials overlaps with those born when dwarf planet Pluto was in Scorpio.  Like Taurus, Scorpio is a money sign, but it refers to money which is yours but not yours.  It is inherited wealth, the money one gets from a dowry or the death of an intimate, money one gets from a corporate merger or a business partnership.” 

“Those born with Pluto in Scorpio have fallen in social status following years of each generation materially surpassing the generation before it.”

 

“Those who have got richer have largely done so by virtue of others’ efforts or by renouncing freedoms, or simply by helping the richest segment of the population get richer.”

 

“It has led to an entire generation of people who feel like 50s housewives, fantasizing of autonomy without any real hope of it.”
 

“The mental health cost is enormous, so many people I know have become psychotic.”

 

“And I am the court jester, enjoying this amazingly pathetic fall from grace.”

 

“You’re all a bunch of Madame Bovarys and I am Flaubert.”

 

 

“[Second Discussant]: This development was foreseeable, and was foreseen, by Earth’s actual “Hari Seldon”, Karl Marx.”

 

 

“The “social forces of production”, and the effect of their growth on the “social relations of production” – the relations by which humanity collectively appropriates its “social forces of production” -- e.g., presently, the effect of further “productive force” growth on the capital/wage-labor social relation [Marx] as the presently-predominant “social relation  of production” of modernity -- is the key, the key to reconstructing past, and to foreseeing future, human history.”

 

 

“The “social forces of production” are, in their unity, the ‘societal self-reproductive self-force of humanity’, and measure the ‘meta-Darwinian’, collective, socio-cultural, human-PHENOME-ic FITNESS of the human species.”

“In highly developed capitalism, with highly advanced capital accumulation, and highly-advanced capital ownership concentration, in ever fewer hands, at a certain point -- in the late 1800s -- further growth of this ‘force of expanding societal self-reproduction’ kills more old capital than the new capital it births, especially for those owning the highest concentrations of high-productivity fixed capital, which is competitively de-valued by new, better, more productive, more profitable vintages of such industrial machinery, etc., e.g., by “new, upstart” competitors, forcing the write-off, against gross profits, of the older vintages, and typically, their scrapping, leading, if it recurs frequently, even ‘acceleratedly’, as during the, ~20-year, late 1800s “Great Deflation”, to a secular fall in the rate of net profit on capital.”

 

 

“This inherent “attack” of newer fixed capital upon older fixed capital threatens to de-throne the ruling, most-concentrated owners of legacy fixed capital.  THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO AVERT THIS, THEIR OVERTHROW, BY “THEIR” “OWN” CAPITALIST SYSTEM ITSELF.”

 

 

“That is why, in the late 1800s, you see the, ~20 year, “GREAT [accelerating technological/competitive obsolescence] DEFLATION”, and the irruption of the most vicious ideologies of the capitalist epoch -- indeed, the most globally vicious ideologies in human history period: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, the beginnings of Fascist ideologies, etc., etc.”

 

 

“This ruling-class realization led to the 1913 creation of the U. S. Federal Reserve and of the U.S. Income Tax.”

 

 

“The latter was needed to finance the suppression, via U.S./U.K.-ruling-class “owned” military dictatorships -- of industrialization and low-wage, new-vintage competition from what thereby, at length, as a result, became the “Third World” -- also blocking the “Demographic Transition” in that “Third World”, whose early progress into industrialization was snuffed-out by those U.S./U.K.-sponsored military dictatorships – and, in 1914, World War I, also laying the groundwork for World War II.”

 

 

“When profit on expansion, i.e., on growth of human-societal self-reproductive force, eventually becomes impossible for the ruling, hyper-concentrated [fixed] capital owners, they then resort to profit on contraction, profit on reversing the growth of that human-societal self-reproductive self-force.”

 

 

“That, ‘descendence-phase’ form of “profit” has led to the war on, e.g., U.S. living standards, ever since the 1960s overthrow of the Roosevelt-Kennedy ruling-class faction -- especially by the Federal Reserve’s programmed, continually accelerating inflation, as well as by shipping U.S. & U.K. industrial jobs to China, etc., once the ruling faction’s attempts to suppress industrialization there had clearly failed, the U.S. ruling faction thus opting to weaponize China as a deadly tool against the U.K./U.S. working classes, and their unionization, etc., to destroy whole working/middle-class communities, cities, etc., creating “rust belts” all across the U.S. and the U.K.”

 

 

“This ruling class strategy soon “progressed” to the point where more and more “middle class” worker families, whether waged or salaried, can’t afford a middle class living-standard, even with both adult partners working [whereas, after WWII, in the 1950s, only one of the partners needed to work to sustain a RISING middle-class living standard].”

 

 

“This ‘descendence-phase’ mode of capital “accumulation”/“profitability” -- profit on contraction, meant, e.g., “buying out”, in “hostile takeovers”, entire, large companies, and cannibalizing their assets for sell-off, leaving only the corpses of these companies behind, laying off all of the companies’ former workers, and crippling or killing whole communities that depended, economically, on those companies’ jobs, etc.”

 

 

“This vampiric strategy has been engaged by the post-1960s ruling class ruling faction, in part to shore up their profits, by shifting more and more of national income from the working/middle class to the plutocracy, but also to “prepare” [“soften-up”] the working/middle class for the only solution that this ruling faction can see to their problem with further growth of human social-reproductive force -- constantly threatening to break out anew, e.g., by a skilled engineer, working in his garage, or by an entrepreneurial private corporation, inventing, e.g., a “polywell” fusion power reactor, or, more formidably at the moment, many ruling-faction-designated, peripheral “Third World” nation-states -- like China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, etc., etc. -- irrupting into rapid industrialization, with the burgeoning of vast new middle classes, clamoring for democratization, despite that ruling faction’s system of “Third World” dictatorships, that were supposed to block this industrial development “forever”.”

 

 

“The post-1960s ruling faction, and their henchmen, have also “labored” to confine productive-force, technological advances in the “First World” to vast expenditures on sterile assets, e.g., “advanced” weaponry of mass destruction, and also on the digital electronics they need to set up their planned total surveillance police-state infrastructure, now nearing completion.”

 

 

“The “solution” that is all that this ruling faction can see, they used to call “Eugenics”, but that name became discredited by [initially] the[ir] Hitler regime’s “Eugenics” Camps “human incinerator” ovens, etc., etc.”

 

 

“They now call their ‘Final Solution to Their Humanity Problem’, totally-falsely, by the name “Ecology” -- i.e., “People Are Pollution” environmentalism.”

  

 

“The planned Biden program/pogrom of ‘Global Warming Austerity’ is intended, by that ruling faction, to be the coup de grace for the working/middle class, if perhaps with “a little help” from global “gain of function” stealth global germ warfare, and from compulsory genetic re-engineering injections.”

 

 

 

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Seldonian insights, please see --

 

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¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

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