Continuation of ‘The Dialectic of Social Equity’.
Dear Reader,
This blog-entry is for the
purpose of describing for you
a recent advance in our conception of ‘The Dialectic of Social Equity’, i.e., on the part of the F.E.D. research collective.
The Seldonian ‘Dialectic of/within
the «Genos» of Social Equity’, as we have publicly
presented it up until now, and as depicted by the ‘dialectogram’ below, involves
a first species category of ‘eXclusive
equities’ – e.g., consider its Capital equities sub-species,
legally establishing social equity for capital equity shareholders, owners of
capital, alone – in opposition to our predicted, not
yet widely instantiated species-category of ‘iNclusive
equities’, i.e., of all-citizen social equities.
That ‘dialectogram’, and its associated
public presentations, explicitly breaks out our hypothesized three
sub1-species categories of that species-category
of ‘iNclusive equities’: ‘Citizen Externality Equities’,
followed by ‘Citizen Birthright Equities’, followed by ‘Citizen Stewardship
Equities’.
This first, ‘Citizen Externality
Equities’ sub1-species category of the ‘iNclusive
equities’ species-category, represents the quality of a
constitutionally-established human right of ‘‘‘collective
property’’’, exercised by public balloting, with ‘public boards’ candidates
grouped by the places of residence of the public, popular electorate.
This first, ‘Citizen Externality
Equities’ sub1-species category of ‘iNclusive
equities’ is opposed by a second, ‘Citizen Birthright Equities’ sub1-species category, representing the
quality of a constitutionally-established human right of socially-provided ‘‘‘personal
property’’’, exercised separately, by individual citizen-persons, but under
constitutional and statutory “moral hazard” social constraints, and provided simply
by right of birth, i.e., by right of membership in the human species.
So far, we have a
supplementary opposition or antithesis of a collective
property right versus a personal property right.
The third and final sub1-species category of the ‘iNclusive
equities’ species-category we name ‘Citizen Stewardship
Equities’.
This category represents the
quality of a constitutionally-established human right of what Marx called “individual
property” [Capital I, NW, p. 763].
The quality of this third
sub-species is contra to both that of the
first sub-species, of “collective property”
right, and to that of the second sub-species, of “personal
property” right, and to the very opposition between those first two.
The third sub-species
category combines and unifies qualities of each of those earlier two sub-species
categories, in a single, third sub-species category.
This third, “individual
property” [Marx] social equity right, gives the individual member of a ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equity’ collective, as a member
thereof, a right to a ‘‘‘dual income’’’; to a periodic personal
equal share in the net operating surplus of this collective’s ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equity’ producers’ cooperative, in addition to the right to
compensation for skill-level/time-worked for that “association of producers” [Marx].
Returning our attention to
the species scale of this ‘qualo-fractal’ scales-regress ‘content-structure’,
depicted below, the third species-category is that of a recurrent alternation in
the kinds of the key productive enterprises in given sectors of production,
oscillating, in many cases, from ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ enterprises
dominance, back to “Capital Equity” enterprises dominance, back to ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equity’ enterprises dominance, and so on… .
The kind of instability
represented by this species-level, oscillatory ‘uni-category’
is suggestive of the transitional character of our predicted new,
next prevailing “social relation of production” [Marx] -- that we
name ‘‘‘Equitism’’’, or ‘Generalized Social Equity’, or ‘iNclusive
Social Equity’ -- in relation/competition with the predecessor predominant “social
relation of production” category, e.g., of the capital[/wage-labor]-relation
[Marx].
The ‘pendulatory’ character
of this ‘‘‘dialectical synthesis’’’ category, qNX, is reminiscent of the – much more abstract in scale –
first triad of the categories of Hegel’s «Logik», in which
the initial opposition between the category “Being”, qB, and
the category “Nothing”,
qN is “resolved” by/in the category of “BeComing”, qNB |-º C,
but only as an oscillation between the first two categories, qN and qB, with
‘coming to Be[ing]’ ‘co-ensuing’ with ‘ceasing [to] Be[ing].
Pursuant to further specifying
our prediction of the next transition beyond ‘‘‘Equitism’’’, we
extended our hypothesized ‘triadic Seldon function’
Social Equity Domain
model-equation –
X3^1 º X3 |-º X ~+~
N ~+~ qNX
-- to a ‘dyadic Seldon function’
Social Equity Domain
model-equation –
X2^2 »
X4 |-º X
~+~ N ~+~ qNX ~+~ qNN
-- and considered possible
solutions for the new, fourth,
algebraic category-symbol term qNN.
The algebraic, N or qN-‘‘‘self-reflexive’’’,
‘self-hybrid’ category-term qNN signifies, by its very algebraic structure, an
immanent ‘critique-in-acts’, as well as ‘critique-in-thoughts’ -- a ‘‘‘self-critique’’’
-- of our already solved-for “social relations of production” category,
qN or N, and of the social acts, social practices, and
social institutions to which it refers, plus a new “social relation of
production” category as positive fruition of that self-critique self-negation:
qN(qN) º ~(qN) = qN ~+~ qNN.
In a Marxian view, this self-critique,
and its new-category fruition, is expected to arise out of the further growth
of ‘‘‘Equitist’’’ society’s “social forces of production” [Marx], i.e., of the ‘Meta-Darwinian
collective fitness’ of that society, as measured by its sustained ‘rate of
social reproduction’. That rate is accelerated
by “the growth of the social forces of production”, i.e., of
‘the human-societal self-reproductive self-force’ of
the human species.
One of the consequences of
further growth of this ‘human-social self-reproductive force’ is the accelerated
cheapening of human labor-power, the market-competitive ‘techno-depreciation’
of the ‘skill-capital’ owned within their persons by individual workers, and
the ‘‘‘technological unemployment’’’ resulting from, among other forms in which
‘social-reproductive societal self-force’ manifests: the “automation”, and even
the AI ‘robotization’, of social production.
In light of these observations,
leading to our so far only tentative and partial
solution for the Equity-Domain-commensurate meaning of the ‘categorogram’ qNN, we have
identified three sub1-species categories of the still-only-partially-solved-for
species-category qNN.
Our first of
these predicted qNN sub-categories is one about ‘‘‘Free Money’’’, i.e., about the ‘‘‘Free distribution’’’ of Monetary resources, of Money as consumer
revenue generalized use-value, to citizens, as exemplified in
concepts of “Universal Basic Income”, and “Negative Income Tax”, etc., already
under widespread discussion, and under local experimentation in the past, and
presently.
Our second predicted
sub-category arises out of the consideration that, with the further growth of
productive force, or productivity, many kinds of needed and wanted Goods – specific use-values
-- will become so reduced in their unit-cost of [re]production, and so
potentially abundant, that it may become a waste of social resources to “ration”
their consumption by market price mechanisms.
Instead, the ‘Equitarian’ -- or
‘Political-Economic-Democratic’ -- government might choose, on the basis of
electoral consent, to contract, under competitive bidding, with ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equity’ producers’ cooperative enterprises, and perhaps also with remaining
capital-equity enterprises, paying them to produce and to distribute these classes
of Goods to
the public, Free-of-charge,
e.g., via local ‘‘‘Free
Goods Stores’’’
and, e.g. automated, home delivery services.
The third sub-category we
expect will be a ‘‘‘complex unity’’’ combination or hybridization of the ‘‘‘Free Monies’’’ sub-category and
‘‘‘Free Goods’’’ sub-category, qGM, the hypothetical commensurate nature of which we
are still deliberating.
Given the above, we
have converged upon a preliminary designation for this predicted future
category as that of ‘‘‘Free
Distributions’’’:
qNN |-º F.
We expect, in
due course, as our solution for the still largely algebraic-unknown
category-symbol qNN |-º F matures, to publish an expanded
‘dialectogram’ for this -- ‘continuated’ -- ‘Dialectic of Social Equity’, depicting
the Social Equity-Domain’s
qualitatively, ontologically-expanded dialectical model equation –
X2^2 »
X4 |-º X
~+~ N ~+~ qNX ~+~ F.
Please post your comments on this blog-entry below!
For more
information regarding these
Seldonian insights, please see --
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/
and
www.dialectics.info
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH
¡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.
