‘[Excerpt from] A Dialogue on the PRESENT ‘Descendence
Phase’ of the Capitalist System.’
Dear Reader,
This is to share the
following recent dialogue-excerpt with you --
[First Discussant]: “Déclassé means having fallen in social
status.”
“The
generation of people called millennials overlaps with those born when dwarf
planet Pluto was in Scorpio. Like
Taurus, Scorpio is a money sign, but it refers to money which is yours but not
yours. It is inherited wealth, the money
one gets from a dowry or the death of an intimate, money one gets from a
corporate merger or a business partnership.”
“Those
born with Pluto in Scorpio have fallen in social status following years of each
generation materially surpassing the generation before it.”
“Those
who have got richer have largely done so by virtue of others’ efforts or by
renouncing freedoms, or simply by helping the richest segment of the population
get richer.”
“It has led to an entire generation of people
who feel like 50s housewives, fantasizing of autonomy without any real hope of
it.”
“The mental health cost is enormous, so many
people I know have become psychotic.”
“And I am the court jester, enjoying this
amazingly pathetic fall from grace.”
“You’re all a bunch of Madame Bovarys and I am
Flaubert.”
“[Second Discussant]: This
development was foreseeable, and was foreseen, by Earth’s actual “Hari Seldon”,
Karl Marx.”
“The “social forces of
production”, and the effect of their growth on the “social relations of
production” – the relations by which humanity collectively appropriates its “social
forces of production” -- e.g., presently, the effect of further “productive
force” growth on the capital/wage-labor social relation [Marx] as the
presently-predominant “social relation
of production” of modernity -- is the key, the key to reconstructing
past, and to foreseeing future, human history.”
“The “social forces of
production” are, in their unity, the ‘societal self-reproductive
self-force of humanity’, and measure the ‘meta-Darwinian’, collective,
socio-cultural, human-PHENOME-ic FITNESS of the human species.”
“In highly developed
capitalism, with highly advanced capital accumulation, and
highly-advanced capital ownership concentration, in ever fewer hands, at
a certain point -- in the late 1800s -- further growth of this ‘force of
expanding societal self-reproduction’ kills more old capital than the new
capital it births, especially for those owning the highest concentrations
of high-productivity fixed capital, which is competitively de-valued by new,
better, more productive, more profitable vintages of such industrial machinery,
etc., e.g., by “new, upstart” competitors, forcing the write-off, against gross
profits, of the older vintages, and typically, their scrapping, leading, if it
recurs frequently, even ‘acceleratedly’, as during the, ~20-year, late
1800s “Great Deflation”, to a secular fall in the rate of net profit on
capital.”
“This inherent “attack” of
newer fixed capital upon older fixed capital threatens to de-throne the ruling,
most-concentrated owners of legacy fixed capital. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO AVERT THIS, THEIR OVERTHROW, BY “THEIR” “OWN” CAPITALIST SYSTEM ITSELF.”
“That is why, in the late
1800s, you see the, ~20 year, “GREAT
[accelerating technological/competitive obsolescence] DEFLATION”, and the irruption of the most vicious
ideologies of the capitalist epoch -- indeed, the most globally vicious ideologies in
human history period: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, the beginnings of Fascist ideologies, etc., etc.”
“This ruling-class
realization led to the 1913 creation of the U. S. Federal Reserve and of
the U.S. Income Tax.”
“The latter was needed to
finance the suppression, via U.S./U.K.-ruling-class “owned” military
dictatorships -- of industrialization and low-wage, new-vintage competition
from what thereby, at length, as a result, became the “Third World” -- also
blocking the “Demographic Transition” in that “Third World”, whose early
progress into industrialization was snuffed-out by those U.S./U.K.-sponsored military
dictatorships – and, in 1914, World War I, also laying the groundwork
for World War II.”
“When profit on expansion,
i.e., on growth of human-societal self-reproductive force, eventually becomes
impossible for the ruling, hyper-concentrated [fixed] capital owners,
they then resort to profit on contraction, profit on reversing
the growth of that human-societal self-reproductive self-force.”
“That, ‘descendence-phase’
form of “profit” has led to the war on, e.g., U.S. living standards, ever since
the 1960s overthrow of the Roosevelt-Kennedy ruling-class faction -- especially
by the Federal Reserve’s programmed, continually accelerating inflation, as
well as by shipping U.S. & U.K. industrial jobs to China, etc., once the
ruling faction’s attempts to suppress industrialization there had clearly
failed, the U.S. ruling faction thus opting to weaponize China as a deadly tool
against the U.K./U.S. working classes, and their unionization, etc., to destroy
whole working/middle-class communities, cities, etc., creating “rust belts” all
across the U.S. and the U.K.”
“This ruling class strategy soon
“progressed” to the point where more and more “middle class” worker families,
whether waged or salaried, can’t afford a middle class living-standard, even
with both adult partners working [whereas, after WWII, in the 1950s,
only one of the partners needed to work to sustain a RISING
middle-class living standard].”
“This ‘descendence-phase’
mode of capital “accumulation”/“profitability” -- profit on contraction,
meant, e.g., “buying out”, in “hostile takeovers”, entire, large companies, and
cannibalizing their assets for sell-off, leaving only the corpses of these companies
behind, laying off all of the companies’ former workers, and crippling or
killing whole communities that depended, economically, on those companies’
jobs, etc.”
“This vampiric strategy has
been engaged by the post-1960s ruling class ruling faction, in part to
shore up their profits, by shifting more and more of national income from the
working/middle class to the plutocracy, but also to “prepare” [“soften-up”] the
working/middle class for the only solution that this ruling faction can see to their
problem with further growth of human social-reproductive force -- constantly
threatening to break out anew, e.g., by a skilled engineer, working in his
garage, or by an entrepreneurial private corporation, inventing, e.g., a “polywell”
fusion power reactor, or, more formidably at the moment, many ruling-faction-designated,
peripheral “Third World” nation-states -- like China, India, Brazil, South
Africa, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, etc., etc. -- irrupting into rapid
industrialization, with the burgeoning of vast new middle classes, clamoring
for democratization, despite that ruling faction’s system of “Third World”
dictatorships, that were supposed to block this industrial development “forever”.”
“The post-1960s ruling
faction, and their henchmen, have also “labored” to confine productive-force,
technological advances in the “First World” to vast expenditures on sterile
assets, e.g., “advanced” weaponry of mass destruction, and also on the digital
electronics they need to set up their planned total surveillance police-state
infrastructure, now nearing completion.”
“The “solution” that is all
that this ruling faction can see, they used to call “Eugenics”, but that name
became discredited by [initially] the[ir] Hitler regime’s “Eugenics” Camps “human incinerator” ovens, etc., etc.”
“They now call their ‘Final Solution to Their Humanity
Problem’, totally-falsely, by the name “Ecology” -- i.e., “People Are Pollution” environmentalism.”
“The planned Biden
program/pogrom of ‘Global
Warming Austerity’ is intended, by that ruling faction, to be
the coup de grace for the working/middle class, if perhaps with “a
little help” from global “gain
of function” stealth
global germ warfare, and from compulsory genetic re-engineering injections.”
For more
information regarding the
Seldonian insights, please see --
www.dialectics.info
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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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