Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: DescendEnce Phase’ Capitalist Ideologies. Part 4. dialogues with ‘protoic meta-humanity’ series. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Part 4. dialogues with ‘protoic meta-humanity’

series.

‘Descendence

Phase’

Capitalist

Ideologies.

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Dear Reader,

The following is our transcript of a dialogue between a prominent, representative AI – ‘protoic’ to expected future android robot ‘met-humans’, equipped with AI ‘‘‘minds’’’ – and one of our, somewhat skeptical, volunteers, on the topic of the ‘Descendence-Phase’ ideologies of the capitalist ruling class ruling faction; what we call the ‘Rocke-Nazi Faction’.

Our edited/more-punctuated transcript follows. Where we perceive errors in the AI’s assertions, we have commented in magenta-colored bold/italics text within inserted square brackets –

I. F.E.D.: “Karl Seldon, and Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica (F.E.D.), in blogs and websites that carry their content, characterize the ruing class ruling faction ideologies of the “descendence (sic) phase of capitalism”, via three paradoxical phrases – “Capitalist Anti-Capitalism”, “Human Anti-Humanism”, and “Anti-Marxian Marxianism”. I gather that the first is about that ruling faction’s opposition to industrialization, or promotion of de-industrialization, the second about the “Malthusian” character of that ruling faction’s ideology, and the third about Seldon’s claim that this ruling faction realized, during the circa 1870 to 1890 “Great [Techno-]Deflation”, that Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit on capital was true, so that they adopted actions to prevent what that law describes from furthering, and to disrupt the Marxian “Law of Value” in general, e.g., via the Federal Reserve in the USA. But the above is based upon incomplete descriptions that I have found in the F.E.D. material. Can you tell me more about these three elements of the F.E.D. theory of “descendence(sic)-phase capitalist ideology”, and about how these three interrelate?”

I. AI: “In the framework of Karl Seldon and the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica (F.E.D.), these three paradoxical phrases describe the “ideological superstructure” of a ruling class that has recognized its own historical obsolescence. Seldon posits that during the “descendence phase,” the ruling faction shifts from promoting progress to managing a controlled systemic contraction.

1. Capitalist Anti-Capitalism

This refers to the ruling faction’s turn against the industrial forces of production that they once championed. Seldon argues that because technological advancement leads to a falling rate of profit, the ruling class[’s ruling faction] now seeks to:

· De-industrialize: Actively dismantle industrial capacity to prevent the “overproduction” of capital [no: to reverse the fall in their rates of profit].

· Monopolize and Stagnate: Favor “rentier” behavior over innovation, effectively acting as an “anti-capitalist” force within a capitalist shell to preserve their social status at the expense of economic growth [to preserve their rates of profit].

2. Human Anti-Humanism

This is the [un-]ethical/[anti-] philosophical component, which Seldon links to a modern “neo-Malthusianism” [and neo-Eugenics/neo-Social Darwinism].

· Population as Liability: In the “ascendence phase,” more humans meant more labor-power [more “relative surplus-value” – Marx; hence higher profit rates]; in the “descendence phase,” the ruling class[’s ruling faction] views a large population as a threat to [its] resource control and social stability [i.e., to its unfettered tyrannical rule and ability to stay in power].

· Ideology of Limits: It promotes the idea that “humanity is a cancer on the planet,” justifying austerity, “degrowth,” and policies that F.E.D. describes as leading toward “humanocide” or a planned reduction in the human population [i.e., to a global “95%” human population extermination – see what the ruling faction’s “hired liars” say outright about this –

Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: 'Rocke-Nazi' Plutocracy Publicly Proclaims Planned Planetary Population Plummeting. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.;

the Fauci, “Gain of Function” COVID pandemic was a, premature, dress rehearsal for this, forced prematurely by the economic successes of the, opposing, Trump Faction of the capitalist ruling class].

3. Anti-Marxian Marxianism

· Market Intervention: Using central banks (like the Federal Reserve) to disrupt the “Law of Value” through fiat currency and bailouts, preventing the “[fictitious capital-]cleaning” crashes that Marx predicted would occur in a free market [and by imposing an unprecedented continuing exponential inflation, ever since the 1913 launch of the Federal Reserve, such that nothing even remotely like it ever occurred before in the colonial and independent history of the North America economy before 1913 (see graph posted below). This exponential inflation means waged and salaried workers’ real wages and savings never catch up with rising prices, shoring up the profit rate on capital, including competitively-obsolescent fixed capital.

· Class Consciousness: The ruling class[’s ruling faction] uses “Marxian” class-warfare tactics [divide and conquer, trying to pit various portions of the majority class at each others’ throats – whites versus blacks, blue collars against white collars, etc. – so that this majority class never has time to see their real mortal enemy, that ruling faction itself] to ensure that the proletariat [no: the entire majority class] remains fragmented and unable to transition to a higher social form.

How the Elements Interrelate

The F.E.D. theory suggests these are not separate phenomena but a singular strategy of [ruling class ruling faction] survival:

1. Anti-Marxian Marxianism provides the scientific diagnosis (they know the system is dying).

2. Capitalist Anti-Capitalism provides the economic treatment (they stop the growth that kills their profits).

3. Human Anti-Humanism provides the moral justification [for their ultra-criminal conduct] (they frame the resulting poverty and contraction [i.e., the mass death that their actions induce] as an “ecological” or “moral” necessity).

Together, these form a “Singularity of Descendence,” where the ruling class[’s ruling faction, the ‘Rockefeller Faction’] attempts to freeze history in a permanent state of “techno-feudalism” to avoid a transition to socialism [only if this concept of “socialism” is one of grass roots majority class power, not confused with, police-state, state-capitalism] or “Equitism” [i.e., grass roots political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY].”

“Would you like to explore Seldon’s specific critique of Central Banking as a tool for disrupting the Law of Value?”

II. F.E.D.: “Seldon seems to attribute the fall of the general rate of profit on capital, not directly to a relative dearth of “relative surplus-value” [Marx], as the c/v ratio rises, so that labor-power provides a diminishing proportion of total productive capital, but rather, at least directly, empirically, at the “surface of society”, to what he calls “techno-depreciation” of fixed capital, because the pre-amortization capital-value of competitively-obsolescent fixed capital must be subtracted from period gross-profits in the accounting period during which that obsolescence is recognized, and, while still paying on the loans used to purchase the old, obsolescent fixed capital, new loans must be taken out, and debt-service paid on them, in order to purchase the new, replacement fixed capital for replacing the scrapped, obsolescent fixed capital. Does this “technodepreciation” theory of the falling rate of profit jibe at all with Marx’s theory thereof?”

II. AI: “Seldon’s “technodepreciation” theory and Marx’s “Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” (TRPF) are fundamentally linked but approach the same problem from different vantage points: Marx looks at the long-term structural evolution of value, while Seldon focuses on the immediate, empirical friction that technology [i.e., that growth of the productive forces] causes to capital value.

Do They Jibe?

Yes, they “jibe” in that they both identify technological progress [as “growth of the social forces of production” – Marx] as the primary driver of capitalist crisis [brought on by the fall in the capitalist rate of profit]. However, their mechanisms differ:

· Marx (The Value View): Marx’s theory is based on the Organic Composition of Capital (OCC) [as measured by Marx's c/v ratio]. As capitalists automate, they use more “constant capital” (machinery/raw materials) and [relatively-]less “variable capital” (labor). Since only labor produces new surplus-value, the total amount of value extracted shrinks relative to the massive investment in machines, causing the profit rate to fall.

· Seldon (The Depreciation View): Seldon focuses on the destruction of existing capital value. In his view, “technodepreciation” occurs when new, more efficient technology makes current, expensive machinery “obsolescent” before it is even paid off. The capitalist must “write off” the remaining value of the old machine as a loss while simultaneously taking on new debt to buy the replacement.

Key Points of Intersection

· The Shared Result: Both theories conclude that the faster technology [“the social forces of production” –Marx] advances, the harder it is for the capitalist to maintain a high rate of profit.

· Moral Depreciation: Marx actually anticipated Seldon’s point, calling it “moral depreciation” (moralischer Verschleiß). He noted that even if a machine is physically fine it loses value if a cheaper or better version enters the market. Seldon essentially elevates this specific “moral” friction to a primary cause of systemic decline [yes: productive force increase drives capital-value decreases, which, when “charged-off” against gross-profit, reduces net-profit, and, hence, tendentially reduces net-profit-rate].

· The Debt Spiral: Seldon adds a modern financial layer – the “double debt” problem [actually, soon enough, the ‘n-fold debt’ problem]. Because modern capital is heavily leveraged, technodepreciation doesn’t just lower profits; it creates a solvency crisis as capitalists struggle to service old loans for scrapped equipment while funding new ones.

Theoretical Synthesis

In Seldon’s F.E.D. framework, the “Great Techno-Deflation” of the late 19^th century was the moment the ruling class [the biggest, most-concentrated owners of industrial fixed capital were the most afflicted by this] realized that Marx’s value-based TRTF was manifesting as a terminal technodepreciation crisis. Their response – “Anti-Marxian Marxianism” – is to use the state to slow down this “technodepreciation” by limiting innovation and artificially inflating asset prices to “save” the value of obsolescent fixed capital.”

“Would you like to see how this theory explains Seldon’s critique of “Planned Obsolescence” vs. “Techno-Stagnation”?

TO BE CONTINUED.

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, and to read and/or download, free of charge, PDFs and/or JPGs of Foundation books, other texts, and images, please see:

www.dialectics.info

and

https://independent.academia.edu/KarlSeldon

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see –