[A-List] Attention: Mark Jones

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

I trust you are doing well and holding your ground.

I read with delight and intellectual stimulation your lengthy article to Marxmail concerning Soviet Industrial development and the working of the "iron law of value" in the context of any society based on the industrial production. For reasons of history such a discussion is called "a look at Stalinism."

I am interested in such discussions but for around a year have avoided Marxline correspondence - I read Marxline every three days, because very few of the debates on industrial evolution in the 20th century are riveted to how Marx and Engels explained the law of value. It would seem that Marxline has taken a leap forward in grappling with this issue and your article was instructive. 

The Internet tool as a medium of debate and reflection is powerful and we have yet to evolve the universal protocol for daily writings that allow the author another level of freedom to edit and evolve thoughts. That is the production of intellectual ideas and their articulation takes place at a pace that prevents "second and third" checks of what has been writing. 

This question of the law of value strikes at the core of the Marxist concept of the "mode of production in material life."  

In a personal sense I have staked 99% of everything that I have written - which is not inconsiderable, on an accurate description of the working of the law of value as it operates under the industrial system of production in general - and, in real time as it evolves daily. 

I would like to do a friendly critique of your article with emphasis on "friendly." 

The reason is that I believe that I have more than less perfected the presentation of the law of value in a manner that anyone can understand. 

Oh . . . the reason that the word "I" is used in all my writings has to do with a specific cultural inheritance that renders the mass distinguishable on the basis of the individual. In other words leaders are still ideological. 

Stalin was correct. He was the right man for the time. Stalin's time is not ours. You should not and are not required to compromise with the ideologist on any Internet line - meaning Marxline. Let's be clear, I like Marxline but believe my contributions are sufficient enough to compel no compromise in this time frame. 

Brother Mark,

I was a slave in American history and my ideology and politics was generated in a specific frame of time and I have a distinct point of view about the mode of production. This means a point of view about value and the value system - and the energy source, which I will not engage you on, when considered from the stand point of thermodynamics! 

With warmest regards


Melvin P