State-Capitalism, Techno-Depreciation..., and the Profit-Rate Fall. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State-Capitalism,

Techno-Depreciation

of

Fixed Capital,

and the

Profit-Rate

Fall.

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

We hold that the reality of Marx’s “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” – driven, empirically, by techno-depreciation of incompletely amortized fixed capital value, subtracted from gross profits, due to the continued and accelerating growth of the social forces of production, has shaped the total history of the ‘descendence-phase’ of the global capitalist system, ever since circa 1870.

 

This proposition is the premise of our ‘Marx-Orwell-Seldon Theory’ [MOST] of ‘descendence-phase’ capitalist history.

 

But how does this “law” – and, especially, how does its techno-depreciation driver – impact, e.g., Lenino-Stalinoid state-capitalist nation-states?  Does their – nationalized and national – “rate of profit” fall too during this ‘descendence-phase’?

 

At first glance, one might think that such national state-capitalisms, of which today’s China is likely the “purest” example so far, would be impervious to Marx’s “law”, and to its techno-depreciation driver. 

 

Facing the sudden world-market-competitive incompetence of some of its industrial fixed capital, the industrial capital-owning national-state “pure-bureaucratic capitalist ruling-class” dictatorship would simply command the scrapping of that technological obsolescent fixed capital, and order its replacement by new, competent fixed capital plant and machinery, financing its purchase or construction out of its taxpayers’ “contributions”, and/or out of previous “net earnings surplus” from its past overseas exports-sales.

 

Before further analysis of such propositions, we should make clear here that the model that we are using, that defines state-capitalism as we see it, is our ‘national super-corporation’, or ‘national meta-corporation’ model, in which any previous non-state-owned corporation units/individual capital units have been «aufheben» ‘meta-unit-ized’ into a single, national, state-bureaucracy-“owned”, state-capital ‘meta-unit’, made up out of the heterogeneous multiplicity of former, non-state-owned, mere corporations, together with whatever new state-owned corporations the national state has formed, if any.   

 

The crucial thing about such an idealized, extreme form of state-capitalism, as well as about real-world, approximate instantiations thereof, which are never as “purely” state-capitalist, and what keeps them capitalist, is that they compete in the world market, both to sell commodities to other nations’ economic entities, and to buy vital resource commodities and other commodities from, other nations’ economic entities, not just engaging commodity commerce domestically only. 

 

We are not modeling some kind of perfect state of, unrealistic, autarky.

 

Now, for the purposes of this blog-entry, keeping our analysis at the generalized level of the logic of our ‘world-market-trading national supercorporation’ hypothesis, without referencing historical data on the social reproduction processes of Stalinist Russia, or of, e.g., today’s Xi-ist China, Un-ist North Korea, and Castro-ist Cuba, it is clear that techno-depreciation is a real threat to the reproduction of such ‘national super-corporation’ largely state-capitalist regimes.

 

For such super-corps, a substantial loss of value to the fixed capital of a key unit of their for-export commodity production, with the need to replace the obsoleted fixed capital, before its wear-and-tear depreciation, with a new purchase of new, competent fixed capital, would have a substantial opportunity cost.  Funds that could otherwise have gone to R&D of more-advanced fixed capital, or to new industries, or even to ameliorate the living-standards of restive wage-workers, would have to be diverted to that new, replacement purchase.

 

If loans from foreign banks needed to be used, to finance the replacement fixed capital purchases, and if the scrapped equipment was also purchased via loans from foreign banks, then debt service payments would be due now on two, not on just one, foreign loan(s), including on the older loan for which the, scrapped, fixed capital is no longer earning any repayment wherewithal at al. 

 

And the number of foreign bank loans demanding debt service payments would increment with every new incident of technodepreciation, rising together with the number of loans demanding payment on scrapped fixed capital purchases that are no longer earning anything toward repayment of those debt-service-paymnts-demanding loans.

 

With technological ‘meta-evolutions’ accelerating – fusion “atomic power” supplanting ‘molecular power’; AI-brained android robot workers partially-replacing human wagéd/-salaried-workers; “quantum computing”, asteroid mining, etc. – the temporal spacing between such major [not to mention more minor] techno-depreciation incidents might be shrinking, i.e., their frequency may be rising.

 

Not only would any default on repayment of any of those foreign bank loans likely lead to loss of access to any further foreign bank loans in the future, cratering the “credit rating” of that ‘national supercorporation’ worldwide. 

 

In addition, this growing number of loans’ aggregate debt-burden would adversely impact such a supercorp’s international balance of payments, and likely tank such a supercorp’s credit-worthiness, and irrupt the perceived riskiness of extending any further loans to that supercorp, in the view of typical foreign banks.

 

 

The “pure state-bureaucratic ruling class” dictatorships of such supercorps might impose draconian income tax and other tax increases on the standards of living of their national wage/salary working classes. 

 

But this would likely risk revolts that would overthrow those state-capitalist dictatorships, and likely institute some regimes of ‘political-economic democracy’ in their place.

 

 

Such supercorps’ dictators might have an easier time in imposing ‘techno-depreciation risk management’ insurance premiums, or ‘techno-depreciation expectance insurance taxes’, on their state-owned and remaining non-state-owned corporations, than would the leaders of other, more “mixed-capitalist” nation-states. 

 

The supercorps’ dictators could thereby accumulate a ‘techno-depreciation emergency fund’ from their ‘at-risk-for-techno-depreciation’ internal economic entities, while those entities’ means of production were still intact to help earn foreign-exchange profits from which to pay those premiums or taxes.

 

Such ‘emergency funds’ could help with at least partial self-financing of purchases of replacement, competent new means of production.

 

However, it is doubtful that such measures could long suffice to avert a kind of ‘national supercorps’ bankruptcies’, with resulting isolation from access to international financing for any commodity purchases at all, not only for means of production purchases; i.e., to withstand the tsunami of growth of ‘the global social forces of human-societal expanded self-re-production’ that is in the offing in these latter days, perhaps the final days, of the ‘decendence phase’ of the global, world market, capitalist system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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MAGA’s UN-Critical Glorification of Capitalist MAMMON Makes It Vulnerable to the PSEUDO-“Socialists”. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAGA’s

UN-Critical

Glorification

of

Capitalist

MAMMON

Makes It

Vulnerable

to the

PSEUDO-

“Socialists”.

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

The U.S. MAGA movement’s hold on the U.S. Congress, in the upcoming Midterm Elections, is being threatened by the sudden electoral popularity of disguised state-capitalist, pro-censor-ship, pro-violence, pro-dictatorship, Lenino-Stalinoid pseudo-socialists and Jihadists.

 

If the MAGA Republicans lose the Midterm Elections then, in short order, the Rocke-Nazi ‘F*ckafeller Faction’ will be back in complete power, and will reimpose their open border; cancel culture deplatforming; “transgender care” mutilation/-sterilization of children, jailing any parent who dares to disagree; biological men in women’s athletics, destroying same; abortion-on-demand mass murder of babies; “Federal Reserve” hyper-inflation/“Great Recession” cycles; their “Soylent Green”, “People are Pollution”, 95% population extermination “Global Warming” austerity program/-pogrom; and their global ‘Designer Disease’ plandemic germ warfare – faster than a snake can bite you. 

 

The ‘F*ckafeller Faction’ thinks that their bought-and-paid-for ideological whores of their Leninoid/Jihadist ‘ALL-LIEs-ance’ proto-dictators, posing as anti-plutocracy “populists”, are just the thing to derail the MAGA movement for good!

 

Unfortunately, the MAGA movement is playing right into the hands of the ‘F*ckerfellers’, and their PSEUDO-Socialist state-capitalists, by MAGA’s Un-Critical worship of the mammon of the capitalist system, denying that there is now, or ever will be, any need for deep reforms of that system – deep reforms amounting to a transition to a, far more securely and deeply democratic, successor-system to this capitalist system.

 

To succeed in the Midterms, and to remain viable for the future, the MAGA movement, albeit led by an anti-Rocke-Nazi, pro-productive-forces-growth faction of the capitalist ruling class, needs to admit some truths which the U.S. majority class is increasingly realizing, with or without MAGA admission, or permission –

 

(1) Capitalism concentrates capital, hence unelected socio-econo-political tyrannical power, in ever fewer hands, subverting political-only checks-and-balances as it buys-out all three branches of political-only government, prostituting the executive, legislative and judicial branches to a single plutocratic agenda, mortally attacking the majority class;

 

(2) Capitalism incentivizes productive-force/-productivity accelerating increases.  This recurrently, acceleratedly techno-depreciates the legacy fixed capital and bank loan capital of the most concentrated owners of industrial and banking capital.  That forces the rate of profit into a death-spiral, as that fixed capital’s unamortized value is subtracted from gross profits, and as new bank loans are taken out to purchase competitive replacement fixed capital, while still making loan payments on the ‘ghosted’, incompetent, and scrapped older fixed capital – unless those owners take increasingly draconian measures, to stop and reverse the growth of industrial productivity, and the fall in the prices of goods, that this creates – as they already have, long-since;

 

(3) Technodepreciation, caused by world market competition from new-entrant industrial capitals, devastates the most-powerful, most-concentrated, most-plutocratic capital owners’ faction of the capitalist ruling class worst of all;

 

(4) Result: An eventually ‘humanocidal’ ruling class ruling faction, warring to suppress and to reverse the growth of productivity/‘social-reproductive-force’.  See what they and their ‘spokes-whores’ have publicly admitted about their plans for you and your family: Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: 'Rocke-Nazi' Plutocracy Publicly Proclaims Planned Planetary Population Plummeting. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.  That plutocracy’s massive mountains of money “trumps” – to coin a phrase – all other powers of persuasion.  Those in key power positions in the Fake News Media, and in government, in academia, and in ‘Hellywood’, who refuse to take the money to do the Rocke-Nazi’s bidding, find themselves faced with blackmail via video-tapes of their, ‘Epsteinesque’, ‘esc-[r]ap[e]-ades’, or find that they, and/or their families, suddenly have “little” – lethal – “accidents”.

 

 

The solution? 

 

MAGA must back constitutional and statutory ‘institution-izations’ of economic checks-and-balances, thereby also resurrecting the BIG-MONEY-MURDERED political-only checks and balances of the governmental systems of the U.S. and other democratic republics, thus instituting ‘political-ECONOMIC DEMORACY’.

 

 

The successor system to the capitalist system, to succeed, must rise up to taking the next step in the long historic evolution of democracy; the step to ‘political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’.

 

The new “Trump Accounts” are already a promising step in this direction – a step toward what we call ‘Citizen Birthright Equity’.

 

However, the recent rise of pro-state-capitalist, pro-police-state, pseudo-“socialism” in the U.S., in the wake of, and in ‘F*ckafeller’ reaction to, the MAGA movement, means that, if the MAGA movement is to remain viable, and to succeed, it must cease its uncritical worship of capitalist mammon, as if the capitalist system were “God Incarnate”, and, next, provide U.S. workers with a government-backed option of a, daily, democratic-governance alternative to the tyrannical governance to which U.S. workers are subjected in capitalist enterprises – an economic-democratic alternative that we call ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’. 

 

And, if the MAGA movement wants their repeal of the hyper-disruptive “environmental regulations”, designed by the ‘F*ckafeller Faction’, and implemented by the, F*ckerfellers’, ‘Demo[n]crap Party’ whores, to suppress the growth of the social forces of production, and the fall of prices that such growth produces, thereby increasing the living standards of the U.S. majority class, then the MAGA movement will support the institution of ‘grassroots regulation’ of capitalist externalities  – what we call ‘Citizen Externality Equity’.

 

In short, if the MAGA movement wants to win, they will “steal the [pseudo-]thunder” of the, Rocke-Nazi-owned, pseudo-Left pseudo-socialists, by means of the REAL THUNDER of the, pro-majority-class, DEEP REFORM of the capitalist system.

 

By means of our proposal of ‘Equitism’, as an exceedingly specific, exceedingly concrete model, or hypothesis, on the successor system to capitalism, we have not sought to establish some dogmatic new orthodoxy.  On the contrary, we seek thereby to evoke critiques that will lead, successively, to better, and better-still models of that successor system, until the majority class has what it needs to create that successor system in actuality.

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:

 

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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 –

 

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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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Capitalism’s Fatal Flaw and Pseudo-Socialism... . GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capitalism’s

Fatal Flaw

and

Pseudo-Socialism:

 

 

 

The Fundamental

Marxian-Seldonian

Psychohistorical

Proposition

Regarding the

Capitalist

System.

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

The fundamental Marxian-Seldonian psychohistorical proposition regarding the capitalist epoch stems from the ineluctable ‘intra-duality’, ‘internal self-opposition’, or ‘intra-contra-kinesis’ within the core of capitalist humanity’s ‘capital-praxis’, which is –

 

(1) Capital as “self-expanding value” [Marx], via the partial reinvestment of profits into new capital investment, and, increasingly, into new, productive-force-embodying and productive-force-enhancing fixed capital;

 

VERSUS

 

(2) Capital as ‘self-contracting value’ [Seldon, amplifying Marx], via the accelerating, world-market- competitive ‘techno-devaluation’ of accumulated, “legacy fixed capital. 

This obliteration of past capital-value is due, ironically, to short-term profitability-gains-incentivized advances in fixed-capital-assisted productivity gains, with the resulting ‘techno-depreciated’ value of legacy, ever-newly-obsoleted fixed capital subtracting from gross profits. 

Moreover, this happens in the context of additional, debt-load-burdening, profits-subtracting debt-service required for the, often huge, bank loans needed to purchase replacements, for the obsoleted fixed capital, by the new, lower-cost, more-productive fixed capital, while still paying debt-service on the scrapped, obsolete, legacy fixed capital, no longer earning any profits.

 

In the ‘ascendence-phase’ of the world-market capitalist system, circa 1500 to 1870 C.E./B.U.E., capitalisms ‘thesis-process’, of self-expanding value’ prevails, dominating over its ‘antithesis process’, of ‘self-contracting value’, as the ratio of fixed capital value divided by total capital value remains small.

 

In the ‘descendence-phase’ of the capitalist epoch, circa 1870 C.E./B.U.E. to the present, the ‘antithesis-process’ of the capitalist form/stage of human society- self-reproductive praxis prevails, with the capital-praxis as ‘self-contracting value’ increasingly dominating over its ‘thesis-process’, that of the capital-praxis as “self-expanding value”.

 

Facing bankruptcy, hence overthrow of their socio-politico-economic power, together with all of its status, and all of its, criminal, “perks” – facing a fatal “betrayal”, by their “own” economic system – the faction of the capitalist ruling class that includes the owners of the greatest concentrations of industrial, raw materials, and banking capital – who own the biggest, and, by then, the most GARGANTUAN, hyper- accumulations of legacy fixed capital, and of related bank-loan-capital, BECOME DERANGED, and, ultimately, as their risk-of-economic-overthrow worsens, BECOME ‘HUMANOCIDAL’, as a result.  

 

This dominant capitalist ruling-class faction’s hired ‘servant-dictators’, in what thereby became the “Third World” – servants to the ‘descendence-phase’ capitalist ruling faction; brutal, progress-reversing dictators to their own people – proliferated throughout the “semi-periphery” of ‘geocore’ capitalism [the U.S., the U.K., and France], reversing and suppressing ‘techno-depreciation’-threatening, ‘geocore’ profit-rates-threatening capitalist-industrialization in those, developing countries of the ‘semi-periphery’.  

Those servant-dictators’ armaments and perks were paid for by, from the U.S., e.g., the new “income taxes” on the working class and the lower capitalist class, in the ‘geocore’, imposed by that ruling faction in 1913, along with their “Federal Reserve”, central-banking economic dictatorship. 

 

One of the results of this suppression of the growth of the social forces of production in that “semi-periphery”, was the, prevenient, irruption of brutal, dictatorial, police-state and totalitarian forms of bureaucratic state-capitalism, prevenient forms of the state-capitalism to which all capitalisms eventually, predictably devolve* – falsely and fraudulently claiming to represent Marxian socialism or communism, i.e., grassroots political-economic democracy – begin to irrupt in that “semi-periphery”, as modes of “primitive accumulation” of industrial capital, to save their state-bureaucracy ruling classes, at horrific cost to their, state-enslaved, agricultural and industrial workers, by a crash program, to build-up a military-industrial complex, one capable of deterring invasion by the armies of the ‘descendence-phase’ capitalist-imperialist ruling-class ruling-faction of the capitalist ‘geocore’, which would mean the brutal  “liquidation’ of those state-bureaucratic ruling classes.

*[State-capitalism, albeit perhaps often fraudulently passed-off as “socialism”, is the horrific national destiny of ‘descendence-phase’ capitalisms overall – see Engels, Anti-Duhring – until or unless the majority class intervenes, exercising their voting majority to legislatively and constitutionally overthrow incipient state-capitalism before it morphs into police-state, state-terrorist, totalitarian, absolute ‘humanocidal’ tyranny].

 

Leninist, state-bureaucracy-as-ruling class, police-state dictatorships, in industrially still-backward nations-states of the “semi-periphery”, such as Russia and China, which were still deeply unripe for the, Marxian-socialist, industrial-working-class majority-electoral transition to grassroots political-economic democracy, but falsely claiming to exclusively “own” the Marxian tradition, and seeking to murder anyone who criticized that lying claim, began to proliferate worldwide, in the aftermath of World War I, and of World War II – the latter fought against genocidal, German and Italian, nazi and fascist, also state-capitalisms/imperialisms – by the “representative-democratic” [actually plutocratically-ruled] capitalist imperialist ruling class of the “West”.

 

That Lenino-Stalinist “Big Lie”, and its false promise of a “worker’s paradise” and of democratic rule by workers’ councils [Russian name: soviets], constitutes the most COLOSSAL bait-and-switch FRAUD in the history of humanity.

 

Don’t be duped again, this time by the ‘Lenino-Stalinoid/Jihadist’ pseudo-“socialists”, who, now in the U.S., are seeking election all across the country, under the auspices of the, ‘Rocke-Nazi-whore’, “Democrat” Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 –

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOU are invited to post your comments on this blog-entry below!

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOLUTION –

 

‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’; 

 

BOOK:

 

MARX’S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

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