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 –
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 19th
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.
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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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