Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: Part 07: Marxian Theory Series. Feuerbach Thesis #8 and«Das Kapital».

Monday, December 02, 2024

Part 07: Marxian Theory Series. Feuerbach Thesis #8 and«Das Kapital».

Part 07: Marxian Theory Series.

Feuerbach Thesis Eight

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«Das Kapital».

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 7th text in this such series is posted both 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 wrote, circa Spring, 1845, in his eighth thesis on Feuerbach, as follows –

“All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”

-- writing this near the very beginning of the amazing series of revelations and discoveries that drove his amazing achievements in the comprehension of human-social history, and in the ‘pre-construction’ of our potential future history, that eventually made him known world-historically, world-wide, as well as the most cited scholar of all time – ‘the Isaac Newton of human-social science’.”

“In his treatise Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, volumes I through IV, he implemented the prescription of his thesis 8.”

“He strove to solve the paradoxical mysteries of the contemporary capital-relation-based civilization/social formation that had mystified almost all of the classical political economists, those capitalist ideology-compromised, attempted “scientists” of capitalist-epoch history, although they tended to project the capitalist system onto all of the human past, and onto all of our futurity, as do “economist” ideologists today -- the past was “The Flintstones”; the future can only be “The Jetsons”.”

“Marx so implemented by paying the most detailed attention to what his contemporary human beings were actually doing, as agents, and as “personifications”, of capital as their predominant “social relation of production”, as well as to the recorded doings of past human beings.”

“That is, he sought to comprehend the actual human praxis, within/as capital, the totality of the human activity that constituted the capitalist system; to comprehend ‘the capital-praxis’ of ‘capitalist humanity’ – the human praxis of the capital-relation-centered instar of the human species.”

“Even the remarkable algebra that he developed to help present his findings arose from this approach.”

“Its C—M—C’ and M—C—M’ formulas are abstracts of human praxis. Its symbols, C and M, represent human agents and “personifications” of capitalist economic value, engaged in the activities of ‘exchange-values exchanges’, as represented by the dash-connectors, ‘—’.”

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