Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Marx’s ‘Implicit Prediction’ about A.I. Android Robotics, and Elon Musk’s. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Marx’s

‘Implicit

Prediction’

about

A.I.

Android

Robotics,

and Elon Musk’s.

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

Dear Reader,

Marx wrote, in the section, in his third volume of Capital, on “The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”*, the following:

“…it is…a requirement of the capitalist mode of production that the number of wage-workers should increase absolutely in spite of its relative decrease [M.D: i.e., relative to both the physical mass, and though not in the same proportion, to the ‘‘‘value-mass’’’ of (f +c), the non-human means of production: ((f +c)/v)]. A development of the productive forces which would diminish the absolute number of laborers, i.e., enable the entire nation to accomplish its total production in a shorter time span [M.D: i.e., with substantially less total labor-time than before], would cause a revolution, because it would put the bulk of the population out of the running.”

The “capital-relation” [Marx] – the ‘industrial-capital/wage-labor social relation of production’, per Marx – could not survive as the predominant ‘social relation of human-societal self-re-production’, if its development of productivity – of the “productive forces” [Marx] – made a substantial portion of the wage-and-salaried majority class permanently unemployed by capital.

That massive loss of employment, per Marx, would trigger a social revolution – that is, in our view, given the social conditions of today, a ‘socio-ontological revolution’ in the “social relations of production”; a change to a higher, qualitatively different, more-democratic, more-prosperous, less-servile, superseding “social relation of production” to the capital-relation, hopefully via rule-of-law, largely non-violent, electoral means.

This ‘implicit prediction’, by Marx, may be usefully viewed in light of a, “more recent”, and explicit prediction by Elon Musk, of a coming transition, not to a society based, in part, upon a ‘“guaranteed universal minimum income”’, but to a society based, in part, upon a “guaranteed Universal High Income” [UHI], apart from wagéd or salaried employment by capital, within the next 20 years, made possible by the gargantuan productivity, or “productive force” [Marx], and the vast human-labor-replacing-power, of ‘AI Android Robotics’.

The latter is the first species of ‘meta-humanity’, per our predicted ‘Dialectic of the Meta-Human’.

*[See Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, Book III, Part III, The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, pp. 263 in the 1967 New World paperback edition].

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SOLUTION –

‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’;

BOOK:

MARX’S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Why the “Collision” that Marx Describes between Capitalist Production and the Productive Forces is a SELF-Collision [internal collision].

Why the

“Collision” that

Marx Describes

between

Capitalist Production

and

the Productive Forces

is a

SELF-Collision.

Dear Reader,

Marx wrote the following in the section, of the third volume of Capital, on “The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”*:

“…capitalist production is by no means an absolute form for the development of the productive forces and for the creation of wealth, but rather…at a certain point it comes into collision with this development.”

The collision that Marx describes in the passage above is, we wish to emphasize, a self-collision [or ‘internal collision’].

This is so, because the capital social relation of production’s system itself, its “capitalist mode of production” – what we call its ‘mode of [human-societal self-re-]production’ – in its core motive, the “profit motive”, drives it, via “the competition of capitals”, to internally grow/develop the social forces of [human-societal self-re-] production’, by competing individual capital owners, in pursuit of profit-advantages via the expansion of “relative surplus-value”.

Marx also calls this “collision” a [self- or internal or immanent] “contradiction”, and describes how the capitalist system “…moves thus in a contradiction”.

We prefer – so as to avoid analogizing dialectical, societal ‘self-dualities’ to propositional mutual negations – an ‘intra-contra-kinesis’, one that is immanent to, i.e., inherent in, the [industrial-] capital/wage-labor social relation of production, as predominant social relation of production.

Furthermore, we expect that this ‘intra-contra-kinesis’ can be effectively «aufheben»-contained/constrained and resolved within a new and higher predominant ‘social relation of societal self-re-production’, namely that of ‘Generalized Equity’, or of ‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’, as outlined below.

*[See Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, Book III, Part III, The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, pp. 263-264 in the 1967 New World paperback edition].

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’;

BOOK:

MARX’S MISSING BLUEPRINTS

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Capitalism’s FATAL FLAW Defined/Described in a Single Sentence [166 words].

Capitalism’s

FATAL FLAW

Defined/Described

in a

Single Sentence

[166 words].

Dear Reader,

The fatal flaw of the Capitalist System, as Karl Marx predicted*, and sought to warn global humanity about, is that, at its high-productivity, fixed-capital-intensive stage, it attacks industrial/banking capitals’ profitability, via the accelerated progress in industrial machinery technology that the capitalist profit motive itself incentivizes, and, via accelerated technological obsolescence depreciation and profits-negating write-off of legacy industrial fixed capital value, and its backing bank-loan value, forced by also-growing world market competition, drives its ruling class to attack the, technological, growth of the “social forces of production” – i.e., of the ‘societal self-reproductive self-force’ of the human species – which is the fount of all progress for humanity, and that ruling faction uses its colossal power to act, in every conceivable way, to, at first, reduce that societal self-reproduction rate, and, later, to reverse that self-reproduction/[self-]productivity growth rate, eventually including pogroms to collapse the very core of that ‘societal self-reproductive self-force’, the human population itself, thereby lowering the ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’ of the human species to the extinction threshold. [166 words]

*[See, for example, Marx’s Preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, especially –

“In the social production which humans¹ carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. …”

“At a certain stage of their development the material forces of production come into conflict with the existing relations of production… . From forms of development of the forces of production these relations turn into their fetters. Then comes the period of social revolution… In considering such transformations the distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of [M.D.: social re-]production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic – in short, ideological – forms in which humans¹ become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.”

See also Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, Book III, Part III, The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, wherein Marx applies the ‘historically generic’ “law” of human social evolution/revolution [/‘meta-evolution’], that he discovered, as stated above, to the “historically specific” case of the capitalist system, and to the capitalist epoch of human [“pre-”]history.

¹[In nineteenth century usage, “men” generally meant human beings in general. Therefore, to preserve the meaning Marx intended, per contemporary usage, we have replaced “men” with “humans”. To see that Marx was no sexist, despite ruling class servants’ claims to the contrary, simply consult Marx’s 1844 manuscripts, Third Manuscript: “The immediate, natural and necessary relation of human being to human being is also the relation of man to woman. … . From this relationship man’s whole level of development can be assessed.”].