Re: [Marxism] Communist conspiracy

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In a message dated 2/22/2009 9:35:25 A.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
cdb1003@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Communist  conspiracy


From: "S. Artesian" 
China has done nothing to  "undermine" the US economy. Capitalism undermines 
itself, but the Chinese  economy has contributed nothing but 
profits....unless of course you think  overproduction is a communist 
strategy.

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CB: Overproduction ?  How does a fall
in the rate of profit cause overproduction ?

Comment  


Surely you jest. 
 
What causes overproduction is the bourgeois property form, expressed as  
anarchy of production. 
 
The question is not "how does a fall in the rate of profit cause  
overproduction," but rather "what causes the rate  . . . of profit . . . to  
fall. 
Because it is a rate, this fall is in relationship to something. 
 
"How does an increase in production capacity and metabolizing +  displacement 
of labor related to consumption," places matters on its feet rather  than on 
its head.  

The connections (interactivity) that is ever increasing productive  capacity, 
(more accurately "manifestation of increased production capacity,"  i.e., 
increase in the density of dead labor, machinery and its enhancement), and  
wages, have been outlined by the government in a host of statistics for over a  
century. In fact Marx uses such statistics. How one understand and interpret 
the  
statistics divides Marxism from all other modes of economic theory. 
 
The theoretical essence of all social democracy, when stripped of its  
various national clothing and historical/cultural specificity is the clarion  
call 
to "raise the consuming capacity of the masses."  This includes our  modern day 
Republicans whose demand to ease the restricted consumption of the  masses, 
proceeds from "programs" to directly increasing capital formation as tax  cuts 
to augment - fatten, capital as profit; and increase its capacity to  purchase 
labor power. This in turn is alleged to increase the consumption of  paid 
labor. This is impossible because capital must pay the sum total of all  hired 
labor, a wage - magnitude, below the sum total of value  created. 
 
For instance cheapening the price of a basket of commodities - their  
production cost, cannot raise the consuming capacity of the masses, because the 
 
price of labor power must fall due to the very set of factors that cheapen the  
basket of commodities in the first place. Credit deepens not expand, the  
market. Then the inevitable crisis of capitalist consumption appears; and  
overshadow the 10,000 year old crisis of restricted consumption.  

The real issue is always the source (cause, taproot, genesis) of  antagonism 
of the capitalist system, and the social consequences we are now  
experiencing. One can easily trace the sum total of social democratic thesis as 
 political 
ideology and "interpretation of Marx," beginning with the concept of  
"restricted consumption" as the ultimate source of crisis, only to discover the 
 same 
theoretical "confusion" - divergence, on the question of the state. If  
resolution of capital crisis takes place on the basis of un restricting the  
consumption of the masses, then the state itself is not an immanent expression  
of 
the irreconcilability of class antagonism. Class antagonism is not an  
abstraction but made manifest - springs from and expresses, property rights,  
rather 
than the historical phenomenon that is restricted consumption. Property  rights 
define the shape of production as reproduction on the basis - platform,  of 
the bourgeois mode of commodity production. 

The "theoretical divergence " and "misunderstanding" between Marxism  and 
social democracy is over Chapter 1 Vol. 1 Capital and the meaning of the  
commodity form and the resultant anarchy of production.  


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