Part 08: Marxian Theory Series.
Marxian Algebra.
GLOBAL STRATEGIC
HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an elected member
of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, 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, Encyclopedia
Dialectica definitions ‘of
the key themes of Seldonian Theory.
The 8th text in
this such series is posted below
[Some E.D.
standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors
of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia,
to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s
discourse].
Seldon
–
“Karl Marx
developed, for the exposition of his dialectical, immanent critique of the
ideology-vitiated science of classical bourgeois political economy, a remarkable
algebra, to convey his discoveries, which he deployed in the volumes of his
world-historic treatise, «Das Kapital», to aid in the
human comprehension of the human social praxis which IS capitalism, which comprehension
was the aim of [t]his work. The fuller import
of this ‘Marxian Algebra’ oft goes unrecognized and unappreciated, still even
today.”
“The
texted illustrative diagrams posted above are meant to help readers to recall
the essentials of this ‘Marxian Algebra’.”
“Thus,
Marx’s “Cs” and “Ms” are algebraic variables that represent, all at once, (1)
different quantities of economic values; (2) different qualities
of economic values, i.e., packaged in the more concrete forms of either Commodities
or Monies; (3) different human personifications of economic values –
human agents, human subjects, enacting and re-enacting these value-characters;
(4) economic value-relations; value “social relations of production”, all inside
the “present” capitalist system, first, albeit mostly inadvertently, growing
the “social forces of production”, and then, later in the “present” capitalist epoch,
enfettering and even contracting those “social
forces of production”.”
“Marx’s
symbols ‘¾’, as in Marx’s –
C
¾ C’;
C
¾ M ¾ C’;
M
¾ C ¾ M’, and;
M
¾ M’
–
represent human acts of exchange or of interchange; social acts of mutually-advantageous
use-value quality and/or exchange-value quantity ‘exchange-value exchange’;
exchanges of exchange-values between human agents who both need, or both desire, to
change the form of their exchange-valuable properties, each’s form with the
form owned by the other.”
“Because
Marx’s algebraic symbols – C, M, C’, M’, L, MP, and P, etc. – and his ‘‘‘parsing’’’
of their economic values into c, v, s, s’, etc., and into their “dimensionless”
[value unit of measure ‘degree 0’] ‘r[el]atios’, (s/v), (c/v), and s’/(c+v),
etc., still represent the praxis of human social individuals in their
acts of reproduction
of the capital social relation of production; social acts of ‘exchange-value
exchange’ and its consequences, many of which were not well-noted until the work
of Marx – because of all of the above – Marx’s ‘Value Algebra’; his ‘social
relations of [social re-]production Algebra’, or ‘exchange-value-based human
social intercourse Algebra’, is also a ‘human Praxis Algebra’.”
“In
summary: C and M, etc., represent us – represent capitalist human
subjects, capitalist “social individuals” [Marx], acting, mostly unwittingly, so to serve as agents
of the capitalist «energeia» and «entelecheia»; acting as “personifications”
[Marx] of human “social relations of production” [Marx] – of the “Commodity-relation”
[Marx], of the “Money-relation” [Marx], and, integrating and ‘«aufheben»-ating’
both, of the “Capital-relation” [Marx].”
“But
these ‘qualo-quantitative’ Algebraic symbols also represent human-social objects,
economic value-objects, physical objects upon which capitalist humanity collectively
and individually projects its semi-conscious construct of economic
value, and which our practice, if scrutinized with sufficient intensity,
reveals itself as revolving around the “abstract labor-time presently
socially necessary to reproduce” those objects “of value”;
objects also “holding” a certain definite quantity of economic
value; of that “presently socially-necessary abstract labor-time”, although, as
algebraic variables, these symbols do not
reveal any specific quantity of that value.”
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