Thoughts on Political Economy and Communist Idealism Continued:

 "Oh, young Vasettha, How they Labored and Fought over this building and look at it now:"

I.

 It was recently reported that worker productivity is at an all time low: what could be the cause of this phenomenon ? Over employment?.... Even Sir Thomas De Quincey himself fails to properly enumerate and distinguish between Use Value as a purely Ideal Want & Desire and Use Value as the satisfaction or perceived satisfaction of some "Material" aim--One even begins to wonder if anything exists at all for De Quincey except the "Material" --in the case of Ricardo's diamonds it is presupposed that its value corresponds to supply , or its scarcity , but that it contains little or no inherent --- More on this Later -- Use Value ---: Here De Quincey steps in to assert that if it in fact had no use value, then there would be no buyer --because after all why would i buy something i have no Use (or Desire) for?---but as stated still leaves open the possibility of Supply Scarcity leading to or creating demand qua Use Value ---: Because , after all, if Capital can take on different forms , e.g. move from the form of commodities to money ---in which case the buyer's Desire is merely directed towards the satisfaction of some "Material" aim imposed upon him, viz., his desire is in fact merely a product of a Diamond's Scarcity : and his apprehension that by virtue of its scarcity , he can make a quick buck : his ultimate aim in the satisfaction of "Material Needs" (no other reason is postulated for the buyer's demand by De Quincey except merely that without the existence of this Demand for Use Value, there would be no transaction in the first place); In the second case, he provides us with the Example of the musical snuff box, that only becomes desirable to the buyer in supply scarcity, and only secondarily does it alleviate his "mental distress", just as a drug would do, and so once again, is one and the same with "Material" or perceived "Material" satisfaction : as it eliminates some sort of "physical pain": but does it stimulate in a purely Ideal sense ? : And what of Wants and Desires, such as the desire for spiritual salvation, not rooted in the accomplishment of some "Material aim"?, a pursuit after ideals --And what exactly are these so called teleological attributes and how are they to be distinguished as opposed to mere material use ? all these things and more are merely ignored by the Author ---: the abnegation of the Material ---: and thus in doing so is guilty of the same charge he levels at his opponents, viz., that he is "Unphilosophically Limited." 

And so is it possible then that this abstract ideal desire or Use Value as contrasted with Material Use or aim can then be measured and elaborated upon in proportion to its deviation precisely from that material aim, and , ultimately in Material Scarcity ? So that the buyer's price above and over the seller's Price -- or, also, the quantitative, numerical form of demand over Supply-- is the Material representation of this Ideal:: Abstract desire (whatever may be its cause)? And the Proposition that these so called 2 attributes of Supply & Demand may thus be measured, in theory , via the collection of Data?. Well that may be so, However, first, we must properly examine these corollaries and thereby arrive at the most expedient and reasonable means by which to accomplish our aims. And Wherever our investigation leads us , it is clear that in order to even begin to accomplish this aim that we would need complete and total transparency and freedom of information so as to in real time measure supply and demand : take the example of the Fed and Interest rates; and if only then we could work together, instead of continuing on in futile private industry when all industry is interconnected and interdependent. 

    What is a world where just our bare needs are satisfied ? : where you get some slop to eat that satisfies your bare nutritional needs but tastes bad? Nobody wants to live in that world : they want luxuries : and are not satisfied with just their bare needs being satisfied . That has been the failure of a materialist - communist system : the communist materialist can only consider Needs : what is necessary to survive : and doesn’t even consider Wants and Desires to exist except as a reflection of Materialism.Well if that’s all life is , then might as well just strap yourself to an IV and become a vegetable . And that’s why you can hold a gun to someone’s head : just as you saw with the saints : and with the 80 years war as well : you can kill people but you can’t eradicate their beliefs and ideals or change them through force / materialism----Yes! They once thought they could eradicate Protestantism by merely killing everyone who believed in it…. Took them 80 years of war to realize they can’t. And no matter how hard they try : they will never be able to control and regulate thought.

    You may be able to see my search history , track where I went today : but no matter what you’ll never be able to see what I was thinking or what’s going on in my head , and at best you can only guess…..

    Well, I’m sorry but I don’t agree with or want to live in your Materialist world where people are just the color of their skin. In fact we know from idealism that color is an illusion and depending on how far you zoom in or out the color changes. Consider your television : that’s not actually the Color green and if you zoom in you will actually see a variety of different colors….. Visual phenomena is so deceptive and yet we place so much importance on it ; and if you had never touched a table before , you would probably never be able to guess how it feels just by looking at it. And Don’t think just because someone is an idealist they will walk into a moving train :

    Ideas can hurt. And also just because that table is an idea doesn’t mean it’s >my< idea ! It’s a reflection of someone else’s idea in my mind….. Expropriated....: I’m surrounded by the expropriated ideas of others. "I" myself am only an idea….. the product of many ideas …. Stemming from the formation of human consciousness …..And It is only once humanity was able to develop consciousness of itself that it was able to separate and distinguish from itself all the infinite multitudinous so called material forms that surround us today and are in a constant state of change.

    The material only exists in the “now” , just as “now” it is night : write that statement on a piece of paper : “it is now night” —true statement — check back in 10 hours and it will be a false statement. Ultimately everything that you consider real , ie the material , will resolve itself into what it truly is : Nothing : and all that will remain is the Ideal. The material world is the greatest mirage there is : you can even feel it and touch it , and yet it doesn’t actually exist…. As Stated : So much emphasis is placed on the visual phenomenon and yet how deceptive is visual imagery …. All these things lead me to believe that the material world is only a crude reflection of the Ideal:

    Here I am in my house , and yet im not in my house : who knows where I really am…. I see the visual phenomenon around me And yet because I know the visual phenomenon I see is only a mirage I’m not confined by it…. This chair is just an idea …. It might not be >my< idea per say but a reflection of someone else’s , an other's Idea…..And that’s also why if I walk into the path of a moving train : it will hurt. Because that moving train is not my idea at all : it was someone else’s idea reflected in someone else’s mind and so on and so forth.......,:

    Yep, It was a long drawn out process of someone having the idea of metal , to start with , and what metal could be used for , and this idea was gradually built upon and modified until it took the form of a moving train. And that’s basically what historical idealism amounts to as compared to historical materialism : human history is the development of consciousness and the very first idea : which gradually was built upon and took on many different variations and forms : and here we are now….: It took the development and formation of consciousness to create the external world and separate that from the internal world and into the multitude of various forms that we experience today.

    From that Initial idea and formation of consciousness we began to separate from ourselves and distinguish various so called “material” phenomenon. 

    And nowadays we can see how far we’ve come from the diversity of objects and “material” phenomenon that surround us in the present day. These were all ideas passed down to us from people who lived in the past via language, and which now today shape our experiences….

     After all what is a “Chair” without the ideal : it is still just some wood….. and so on ad infinitum…..If we take the materialist philosophy , there will never be any end and we can keep tracing the material down to increasingly tiny levels to infinity…. 1 can be divided into 1/2 and that into 1/4 and so on…. So that is to say the universe is as infinitely small as it is infinitely large….. you can zoom out ad infinitum or you can zoom in ad infinitum .

    And so, in conclusion , There is , simply put , no better indicator of danger and mental illness than someone who goes to buy an AR or who thinks they need an AR to protect themselves, or even that it ever could. .... Yes. Now we see the Value of Formless Ideas.

Meditations / Reflections on Labor Theory of Value

I.

Let us start our investigation by examining the equalization of Profit, how different Capitals within particular fields of production, despite slightly differing ratios of C:V come to assume equal rates of surplus value.

What causes some commodities to depreciate in value and others to rise in value? This glass that i am drinking out of is probably worth less or will fetch a lower price on the market than what i originally paid for it, while that antique desk from 1708 is probably worth more or will fetch more than it was originally sold for in 1708,---or would it?? is the rise in the cost of this antique desk the result of inflation of money, or rather the inflation of labor, today's equivalent of that year's labor?---is this also with respect to the Average Rate of Profit?

This glass might sell for less than i bought it for in today's market, but let's check back in, say, 500 years from now and see if it hasn't risen in value above the real nominal price that i paid for it adjusted for inflation and independent of the Average rate of profit for Glass cups (assuming that it's still in good condition). Exactly what other factors must we consider in the specific determination of value---And exactly how much value do these factors represent, i mean, quantitatively, exactly, precisely---do we, can we, assess that according to Labor theory of Value??

And what about celebrity items? That Mariano Rivera baseball on my bookcase (or better yet ((so as to contrast art as a commodity with the unique achievement of the practicing artist))---this original manuscript of Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx and a mass produced copy of Capital Vol. 1 made in 2003)???----Or, items that exist outside of the Capitalist Production Process, that are not a result of the Capitalist Production process? What is it that makes the signed baseball more valuable than a regular baseball (and likewise with a book or piece of art)? Is it the labor of Mariano Rivera signing it, whose value as an individual, and thus also his labor, is worth more to society due to the collective social investments made in Mariano Rivera? Likewise, with our Antique desk, if the Artisan who produced it was highly skilled, and he invested a large sum of labor into it, reflected in the quality of the desk itself, will it not be worth more than a haphazardly constructed desk made by some novice or individual for the sake of merely meeting his or her immediate needs? Same with say a luxury car produced in 1950 and sold in today's market.... Why is it that some cars depreciate in value while other cars rise in value?

What is more important the ideal or the Material? According to Labor theory, the more we invest in people, and the more time they spend in productive Labor, the more value that is created---that this is the formation of real value that serves as the basis for average or abstract value, after which deviation can occur due to certain, abstract, non-material factors that exist outside the realm of material production.... but what is the true source of these factors, what are they, but ideas? and these ideas even more so than the "material" factors of production (which are coincidentally also just reflections of ideas and hence also ideas) play the ultimate role in determining the final exchange value of a Commodity.....

We need to start looking at Capital as more of an Abstract idea, rather than a material force. Capital as alienated surplus value set into motion, real life energy expropriated from its material form in the human being, set free to exist on its own. Capital is not a Material thing of a definite form, but rather more like energy: at one time it is money, at another point it is an antique desk; it can pass through walls, people, inhabit material objects themselves.... Capital as an idea.... A dollar, for instance, abstracted from its material conditions considered in isolation in and of itself is merely a piece of paper, but as soon as it serves as a means of exchange, enters into the C-M-C / M-C-M process, it comes to life, it is charged, set into motion, its existence demands action, forces the individual act.... Likewise with Gold.

Relative relations of value, the distinction between production value and market value---Art doesn't put food on the table, but why!?? Because there is not enough social investment in the arts, the material demand is placed on the Maths and sciences. Needless to say, if so much more value and investment is placed in the production of labor in science or the profession of say a nurse, then of course the natural the cost of these goods is going to be higher according to Labor theory of Value, and who sets the price for the production of nurses and doctors, is it the schools and universities?--some secret NWO or illuminati group that exists somewhere in some secret underground facility?.... or is it CAPITAL?

Let us take a closer look. Labor has become more specialized, less intuitive, since the industrial revolution: increasingly dependent on the possession of a college degree in the maths & sciences; According to the BLS "Employment in STEM occupations grew 10.5 percent, between 2009 and 2015, compared with 5.2 percent net growth in non-STEM occupations." Moreover, "The national average wage for all STEM occupations was nearly double the national average wage for non-STEM occupations." This is furthermore a product of things like the average length of class time, of a semester, etc.--and these themselves are purposely expanded on by the capitalist production process itself so as to maximize profits. These educational institutions thus come to serve as gatekeepers, but under what principle do they operate?.... Take A degree from an American college, for instance, in order to graduate, you probably, really, only need about 30-50 credits total for your major (to be able to perform your job), but you need to pay for 130+ (?) credits---the goal is to keep you there for as long as possible so as to make the most money---it's a business, the more students they can enroll, the more trees they can cut down, the more dormitories they can build, and . . . the more students they can enroll, etc. And this trickles down into the cost of goods and services, taking up an ever increasing portion of the National Capital at the expense of other fields.

---So, again, why doesn't art pay the bills!??, because the capitalist production process tends to emphasize investments in the maths & sciences at the expense of the arts because it is more conducive to the rise in the organic composition of Capital of which it is constrained to follow: the ultimate objective of Capital being the total and complete enslavement and subordination of Humanity.

II.

Imagine a state-owned industry, except based on the American ideal of democracy, egalitarinism and free speech....

Yes, imagine, it's just a temporary illusion, a mirage, they say we are crazy, that we are dealing with Imaginary things, but they are the ones who are seeing things that aren't actually there, and it affects them---They are not, however, suffering from mental illness, just a Poverty of Philosophy.---mental illness doesn't exist.

*Angrily slaps forearm repeatedly with back hand*

Imaginary things, like all of their money, where is it? What is it doing right now, i wonder? Is it just there, sitting in the bank where they deposited it? Are you sure it's there? But How do you know? Did you check on it tonight before you went to bed? Tuck it in? Or, rather, is it continuing to operate independently of you as Capital? Is it being used somewhere else, for something completely different Without your knowledge?....

Fictitious Capital - Stocks, bonds, commodity options and futures contracts, fixed rate and adjustable mortgages, interest rates, compounding interest, the currency exchange, CDO's and synthetic CDOS.... Non-tangible, Imaginary Capital functioning and operating as real Capital only to vanish into thin air.---Where does it all go?, to what realm, what alternate, parallel reality,---was it even there in the first place?

*Angrily slaps forearm repeatedly with back hand*

The Variability of the Labor of the worker is best contrasted with the static wage that confronts him.... He can produce more or less during his shift, but he still gets paid the same! His wage is fixed, his Labor is not.... Work in this Walmart for 1 hour, get paid $7.55.

"Nonsense! what imaginary things!??"

"Well let's start with yourself...."

"Solipsism! When major side characters in your short stories make side appearance in your novels... and these abstract, metaphysical ideas of theirs affect them, yet you say they don't exist, that they are not important!"

"Imaginary things!!!!?, blah, right now, all i see is this public road, some woods, power lines.... that's it, all else is private property and thus off limits to me, a limitation on my world, a wall which can not be breached...."

------A business is like a black hole, it traps all surplus Labor, nothing escapes.

The problem with materialism is Capital stagnation, capital as a static entity, and not an idea, that moves the human being, forces him to act & speak in a certain way.... And what of the pre-history of humanity, are we to come to regard this period as non-existent, prior to commodity production? According to historical materialism the course of humanity is determined by economic forces, economic necessity, economic forces and their relations, but what of humanity before the stone age? before the agricultural revolution and the development of civilization? In Kerala, India, there is a group of Brahmins who recite ancient chants containing sounds and speech patterns devoid of modern linguistic meaning, passed down tens of thousands of years, as part of a vocal tradition. What if there is more to humanity than a material reaction to external economic forces, what if the course of humanity is not the development of economic relations, but rather the development of the idea, of concepts and the human consciousness, and these ideas themselves would go on to produce the agricultural revolution and the subsequent economic relations which would then go on to reflect back on the human consciousness, to determine its course and character and also to act as a means of self-realization?

The universal equivalent, or money, tends to assume the most intangible abstract form possible, compare a piece of paper to the content of 1 hour of productive work, to Dibcoin....

...The U.S. Hospital system is an example of a crisis of overproduction, the product of a rise in the organic composition of Capital (Living Labor Vs. Dead Labor). As investments in constant fixed capital increase (as well as variable capital absolutely), the cost of healthcare continues to rise so as to become utterly out of reach to the average wage earner without insurance.....

Well, What is the true price of this paper, from whence does its value derive?---

And what is inflation, or more precisely, what is the true cause of inflation, is it because the amount of money in circulation continues to increase?....--> Well, we know that inflation naturally rises by a small percentage every year. --What is inflation: a decrease in the value of the purchasing power of money, or a rise in the cost of goods; So, is it due to higher production costs, or an increase in the cost of raw materials, leading to a higher product cost, as well as an increase in the total supply of cash in circulation?; interestingly enough the cost of production of a $5 bill and $100 bill (like our example of the textbooks ((see the previous chapter))) are roughly the same and yet they have very different values in the market and represent very different quantities....

And What is supply and demand? And how does it act to determine the price of a commodity?---What if the Supply exactly coincides with demand? What then? Well the whole of Capitalist Academia would spontaneously combust while the entire edifice of bourgeoise capitalist economics itself would come crashing down....

The rate of surplus value is rarely ever fixed and differs between differing periods of production due to varying levels of worker productivity, and natural forces, and other external factors, creating differing exchange values for certain stocks of commodities, the constant material elements taking up a different value distribution in greater or lesser stocks of commodities---whereas in Capital, we usually proceed under the assumption that the rate of surplus value is fixed. This accounts for supply, but what is demand but money & need, which creates pressure, and leads to increased capital investment to facilitate that demand... And what causes different National rates of surplus value?

---What is the true cause of inflation but the declining rate of profit, or the increase in the constant portion of capital as compared to that of the variable part..... What is the cause of Inflation but CAPITAL.

III.

The relationship between the worker and the capitalist is not a fair one at all and totally 1-sided, there is little-to-no negotiation when it comes to wages, nor can there be any negotiation as to the prices of commodities.

What can there be but labor in the determination of the real value of commodities, supply & demand, rather, seems to be a secondary consideration that nonetheless exerts either a positive or negative push on this real price in the market but only after the fact and secondarily to Labor---oh, the joys of Labor theory of Value!---how it makes sense of the incomprehensible dribble of the modern economists, and provides the individual with a glimpse, shines of ray light into the abyss that is Capitalism and the field of economics just like the seeing of the Ancient Mexican Shamans....

What can i say? We Communists aren't much for empty words... We will show you what we mean, with hammer & sickle & Anvil, and hard work....

Rent (and private property) in Land used in capitalist production (or business) not only serves as a deduction on Profit for the Capitalist (to be distinguished from the Landowner and also the Finance Capitalists), but it also results in lower wages for workers, i.e., a reduction in variable capital as well....

--What is the precise cause of an economic collapse? Just like what is the precise cause of a Tornado? but a multitude of factors, two high powered forces or winds coming together at the same time, crashing, clashing, to bring down the market, like funnel, just like during the 08 financial collapse.

---And Why is it that we find the Artistic product treated with such disdain in Das Kapital? And what is it about the Artistic product that makes it so difficult to deal with in regard to Labor theory?---Well, for one, the Artistic product is distinct in that unlike other fields of production, it does not follow the typical pattern of a rise in the organic composition of capital---more constant capital as opposed to variable capital--indeed, the artistic product stubbornly defies the capitalist production process like no other field of industry--yeah, it is the one field of production where human labor will never become obsolete, where it is indispensable, and where we will never be replaced by machines, and thus forms the ultimate, absolute ideal (and most necessary source for the subsistence and liberation of the proletariat. The production of Art, as we shall presently see with our current investigation, holds even greater wonders and marvels than this, treasures of unimaginable wealth, such that were they written on the eyelids of man in gold ink, they would serve as a crown jewel delight for all posterity and even the angels.

Now, a computer is perfectly capable of producing something that resembles art, say, a song or a painting, but such things are not Art; neither is a landscape in and of itself; the sun setting over a midwestern field may be aesthetically pleasing to some, but it is not art, rather the artistic product is inextricably linked to the producer or artist directly and deals wither inner condition, human feeling and emotion, unique conceptions, and thus to do away with the human element is thus to move away from what is the defining element of Art....

According to labor theory of value and Communist Materialism, all value is derived from human labor, the expenditure of productive energy by the worker. Well, communist idealism asks: what about the productive energy spend on my mind!?---After all, what is the source or driving force behind labor, but the idea? in order to act, i must will it, and so what about all this labor that i've expended on the development of my mind? How do we measure this? Where does it all go? What value will the Capitalist pay me for my thoughts, or is it all for nothing?---What is Nothing in a positive sense?

Communist idealism regards the idea as the formative element, the motif operandi and driving force behind the physical expenditure of labor; the idea thus at once assumes if not a position of primary importance in relation to material labor, an equal footing with it, and where communist materialism blatantly disregards the idea and the realm of the mind as non-existent, a reflection of the material world, communist idealism see it the other way around---and, this, the idea, is that which Capital tragically does not pay for, but rather blatantly steals and appropriates for itself, and via the mechanism of private property uses it as a means of enslaving its own creator.... From out tweets, our art, everything we post online, and even that comes out of our own mouths... but a day is coming when this value must be realized and physical, material expressions of labor have become superfluous---so, invest in your minds, comrades, labor on your mind rather than a physical material object that can be alienated and expropriated from you, guard your thoughts, value and store away your treasures and dreams....

The free production of art takes on an entirely new meaning during the digital revolution. The whole of Social media is just a mechanism for Capital to extract our thoughts, our dreams, our ideas, to appropriate and them free of charge, assess our objective material worth within the capitalist production process and assign us our relative share and position within its hierarchy---that idea for a movie, or commercial, or invention, your art that you just posted on deviant art, Capital takes it and reproduces it with its high-tech equipment, sell it in its sorts, through its channels of production, at which point it belongs to Capital, it makes millions off of it, and never pays you a cent, but perhaps it does if this suits itself.... Meanwhile, you re none the wise, and sitting there on on Twitter, wondering why nobody is liking your tweets, wondering if anybody is out there, The answer is Yes: Capital is watching you.

Nothing is, therefore, more absurd than the idea that we, as humans, are going to stop producing art. Indeed, as was said, the one field of production where humanity will never become obsolete, where it is indispensable, is the production of art.

        ---It follows that we will, thus, never be able to abolish labor entirely, that full automation is impossible, a reactionary Capitalist's wet dream, utopia, precisely because machines will never be able to produce our art, for to do so would be to replace man with machine entirely, which creates a little bit of a problem for Capital.... For were it not for Art, we would all be mindless zombies, vegetables, hooked up to an I.V., but then again, the problem was never Labor, Labor is what makes us Unique, but rather it is the alienation and exploitation of Labor, fictitious capital, circulating around on the stock market.

After all, what is this chair, comrades, but an Idea? The manifestation of the alienated product of an other's idea, whether they are dead or alive is of no consequence whatsoever, staring back at us. What are all of these things that surround us but ideas? their qualities only representations of what is useful to us, only important in that they serve some productive useful purpose to us as human beings:

According to Marx, "the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind and translated into the various forms of thought (Marx, afterword to the German Edition of Capital Vol. I), whereas, We, the Communist idealists, "see the Idea as an independent subject, as the demiurgos (creator) of the real world, and the real world as only the external phenomenal form of the idea".... the Idea as a source of Value, if not the only and true source of value, the key to the liberation of the proletariat from a Materialist world dominated by machine Labor the result of a rise in the organic composition of Capital, and from the fall in the average rage of profit. So let us now take a closer look at the Idea....

IV.

The digital revolution is a relatively new phenomena, the full implications of which are still playing out. We are witnessing firsthand a technological revolution just as consequential if not more so (in terms of extent and speed) as the industrial revolution..... When we are dealing with the transitional product, we are not talking about the transitional product as defined by Marx, but rather the product in the process of its production, the work in progress....

What is the cost of production of a digital copy of a video game compared to the physical copy of a video game: naturally it has a lower cost of production compared to the physical form and this manifests itself in a lower market price, but is this market price the real exchange value of this product? Well, if we recall the transitional product (more on the transitional product later), we will find that while the cost of the transitional product constantly fluctuates, in a capitalist society the transitional product must assume a fixed or set value, so what we have now is a commodity whose real exchange value is subject to fluctuation: it can either rise or fall below its market price; while we can’t be sure of the real exchange value of the digital commodity, we can assume that its price is partially determined by the need of Capital to promote some sort of balance between the digital copy and the physical commodity which is clearly still the most profitable deal for it, and thus we can assume that its market price is an inflation of its exchange value....

Such a transitional product, not to be confused with the finished transitional product (again more on this later) did not exist during the industrial revolution, except perhaps in the form of the play or live performance.---And what about Sex Work? What is sex work but performative art? Due to a shift in the means of production the very nature of the transitional product as a commodity has itself been altered and allows for even greater manipulation and capitalist exploitation as we mentioned in regards to social media.

Also, we must consider the distinction between the physical copy of a Video game and the digital copy of a video game, which does not exist in the form of a physical object that i can hold with my own two hands, but quite literally exists in a different realm....


What is the value of sheldon’s labor today?

For example, if i'm just an ordinary consumer, and i buy an Xbox One, i can't sell it for more than i bought it for after i use it; on the contrary, it begins to fall in value as soon as i open the box....
 Well, i can deceive or trick you into paying more than it is actually worth, so there does seem to exist this distinction between exchange value and final market value....
 unless by using it, i am adding some sort of labor value to it in the form of games that are downloaded digitally, but even then i'm probably not going to sell those games for their full market value or the value that i paid Microsoft for them and Microsoft is going to make sure of this by gradually dropping the market price of its old games....


V.

And what about the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank? Is this a Private or Public Institution? Who owns the Federal Reserve Bank?... What is the difference between private and public, private and State? Capitalism is also Statist. It is state for a handful of private corporations....

In the final formation of value We have already Accounted for transportation; it's not actual exchange value, but the *average* exchange value. We are not transporting beers by the glass or pint, we're transporting them in mass amounts..... And that cost of transport is broken down / reflected into smaller amounts in the cost of a single beer, but obviously there is some other added value to the cost of the beer, and that is the labor of the workers which is likewise broken down into smaller amounts. Labor theory deals with Capitalism, we are seeking a new theory of value to deal with life in the Communist state....

A 40oz costs $2.00 at the 7/11, 2 or 80oz for 3.00. So 3.00 for a beer (12oz.) at the bar (during Happy Hour only), 4 cents of which is tax that goes to the state, so the market cost of the beer comes to 2.96, how does that break down? $3.00, what elements constitute the price of this beer? well, there is the cost of the materials of production, the cost of the bartender's neccessary labor and also her surplus value, which goes to the bar, and ultimately the bank account of the owner for him to do with as he or she likes: in the material world it breaks down to a couple dollars to the bar, one dollar to the bartender, 4 cents to the state--is this really what we're fighting over? a couple dollars? should we really bring about a Bolshevik Revolution to alter this formula ever so slightly so that the State makes 1 dollar, the bartender two? is it really worth all that trouble??.... Except beers only cost $3 during happy hour, normally they go for average cost of $4-5 altering the distribution scheme even more.

In Miami, there is a KFC that sells flan, the unique creation of a Cuban cook who would use company ingredients and means of production to bake his flan for his fellow co-workers to eat. One day a customer came in and said, "i want that Flan." Word spread, and soon more and more customers were asking for the flan. It was so good that the recipe was passed on and the store started selling it. When KFC was later brought by Yum brand corporation, Yum made a special exception for this one KFC allowing them to continue selling flan as part of the menu, and now people travel from all across Florida and North America to try this flan that they can't get anywhere else. Let's make it so that our state owned industries allow for worker innovation, instead of merely treating the Worker as an animal to obey all orders, lets realize the potential of the American worker and the enormous potential for innovation that is currently lying dormant due to the hierarchical, centralized nature of the Capitalist production process.

We can Not merely apply the same dogmatic principles as universals to every single particular stock, commodity and currency, but rather each one must be treated as a particular with its own unique contradictions and conditions, its existence constituting a unique relationship with all other commodities, and this arising precisely from its unique existence as an individual commodity distinct from others. 

Now then to what can we ascribe the disproportionate Capital flows between the Maths & Sciences and the Arts? What could it be but a product of the natural rise in the organic composition of Capital inherent in the Capitalist mode of production (capital investments in the Maths & sciences being more conducive to this phenomenon)? From the perspective of Communist idealism, events such as military conflicts and war are a phenomenon that arises out of and justifies the conditions necessitated by the economic (and in this case, the Capitalist) mode of production itself; these things are the product and not the cause, the material shell or external form that the internal, abstract contradictions that the Capitalist mode of production assumes. Did the Market crash today because of the Trade War? or is it rather that the Trade War came about as a means to justify the need of the market to crash?

At this point the Manuscript breaks off.....

Communist idealism in Action (and the return of Communism):

"Communist idealism is rude. it has no respect for customs, boundaries or divisions, it will violently hijack your school of philosophy, radically alter it, and use it for its own purposes."

1. On Communist idealism     

  Experiments on the US population? And War crimes!?? by the CIA and FBI? The American government?? what exactly are you talking about / do you have any evidence or proof? not saying you're wrong, but it sure sounds like anarchist / right wing / anti-big government propaganda to me...., they’re always trying to destroy government….no, I don’t believe it! Not my U.S. government! if anything it was Big Capital who had influenced / possessed certain individuals within the US government, but the institution of the US government in and of itself is a neutral entity that comes to be run by certain individuals who more or less serve the interests of Big Capital. The Capitalist is merely a tool of Big Capital. 
Big Capital is not a human being....
neither can you destroy it or harm it by any violent or illegal physical action.
…and, moreover, if you try to, you only risk harming innocent human beings.... and that's horrible! and will only land you in prison, the execution chamber, or Hell!
 as it should. There is only 1 way out of this dilemma, it's called Communist idealism.


Communist idealism smashes fake pseudo-philosophies like Communist egoism, which are not actually brand new at all and can barely even be considered a philosophy, much less an entire school of philosophy,....
 But is Communist idealism ~really~ a brand new school of philosophy never before seen in the history of mankind?

     Perhaps, Communist idealism ~is~ an entirely brand new school of philosophy.--but what exactly distinguishes this philosophy from, say, Chomsky's? Did not he too talk about ideas? The mind body problem? Yes, but did he provide us with a satisfactory answer to the dilemma, or, rather, did he only serve to confuse and befuddle the matter, and did he not ultimately side with materialism over idealism? Well, according to Communist idealism, The brain itself is not the originator of ideas, but rather it is ideas themselves that create the brain! The brain is no more than an idea itself!, or more precisely, the manifestation of an idea!

Communist idealism is a reaction to those who say: "what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."--Fools And there's still more out there, just waiting to be discovered! The possibilities are literally infinite! just as many sentences as there can be in the English language or the size of the universe are there ideas! So, what will ~you~ the reader create? 

*Gasp* 

 “---But he’s Chomsky!!!! The most quoted individual in Capitalist academia!!!!”

Question: Would someone who was a true communist really be the most quoted individual in Capitalist academia????? Or would he / she [the true communist philosopher] be the most censored individual in capitalist academia???--would not that person be using Social media to write because all other avenues have been closed to them? 

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2.  on censorship

According to Communist idealism, Even the most minimal censorship should be condemned as an assault on the proletariat and be met with force of Arms....

Ironically, the Capitalist / CEO is perhaps one of the biggest hindrances to business as he continually takes for himself annual salaries exceeding 10 million dollars. The process of Capitalism and individual private ownership is one of censorship in the workplace. Private property in the means of production makes democratization in the workplace impossible, so even if we "reinstate higher marginal income tax rates at the very top, Remove the tax breaks for executive performance pay, [and] set corporate tax rates higher for firms that have higher ratios of CEO-to-Worker compensation," as advocated by the economic policy institute, as long as private ownership in the means of production and Capitalism is allowed to remain in place untouched, we are still not doing anything about Censorship, nor will we be able to prevent the Capitalist from simply packing up his business and moving to Europe or some other capitalist haven; however, right now, we are primarily only concerned with censorship in the arts: 

So, what are you going to do to prevent ~this~ private social media company from banning your page if they don't agree with your views? Don't like it? Too bad, that's how Capitalism works. Communist idealism is particularly concerned with protecting freedom of speech and the issue of censorship within the Capitalist production process---A lot is said about the authoritarianism of Communism, but what is each Corporation but a Totalitarian regime in itself!

(Go ahead, make a new school of Communism and we will smash it with Communist idealism. Communist idealism ~is~ the communism of the New age, of the digital revolution. What will you do? What is there left besides Communist idealism? Maybe Communist Existentialism? Or what about Communist Nihilism? Yeah, say that there is nothing we can do to overcome capitalism, and thus we should not act at all and merely drift through life without a penny, aimlessly allowing whatever external phenomenon that we come across to merely happen, like in The Stranger by Albert Camus? We look forward to hearing what you come up with and ripping it to shreds. This school of philosophy was specifically designed with the explicit intent of having the final say in the matter.
 . . .

----matter? What is it? Atoms, particles, quarks, gluons---yeah, what are those made up of (because, as we know, 1 inch can be divided into 1/2 inch, and that into 1/4 inch, and that into 1/8 inch, 1/16 inch, and so on, ad infinitum, the world, is as infinitely small as it is infinitely big):

"It's true, we don't know whether it [the universe] is finite or infinite, but we know a lot more than what we see within the part that's observable to us" (Ethan Siegel, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist).---Well, gee, thanks Mr. Scientist, You really solved my moral, existential crisis, and put all my fears and worries to rest. Now that this issue is solved we can go back to building more nuclear weapons and also planning our space colony on Mars (and increasing my life span so i can work for an even longer period of time): Excuse me, i'm getting distracted again, let me go back to calculating the velocity of this imaginary tennis ball: that's like really, really important, we absolutely must know the velocity of this imaginary tennis ball.

 . . . physical objects, money, who needs it?--Give it all to Ashley Marx--We made sure to give nobody a way out this time: there is literally Nothing beyond Communist idealism.
 At least at this point in time.)

For more on Communist idealism see Capital Vol. 4 (Nor for Sale).
--even this is only a brief introduction at best.--but don't worry, aspiring philosophers of the world, as soon as i'm done with Capital Vol. 4, i will publish it, and you will have your chance to respond to the best of your ability and also make your criticisms.
 But keep in mind, i will then respond to ~your~ criticisms, and you will make your counter-criticisms to my responses, and so on....
 And then, people will read our responses hundreds of years later, just like i read all the criticisms of Marx, and his responses, and make their own criticisms to our criticisms! . . .

But hopefully, this time around, we can avoid the part where The capitalists indiscriminately kill a bunch of communists in Vietnam, North Korea, China, Africa, Europe, the middle east, and Latin America....
 Like the time Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists whose predecessors now control the illegitimate state of TaiWan, which is secretly supported by the capitalists, invited the Chinese Communists to a "peace conference" and then slaughtered them all!
, sparking a vicious guerrilla war between the communists and nationalists, eventually ending with Mao Ze Dong emerging victorious and ushering in a new era of Socialism in China, and, to this day, it still remains Socialist---remember that?
 Oh, wait, nevermind, i forgot, they don't really teach that in U.S. schools, because it carries a message that is pro-communist and "in [capitalist] teaching institutions the teachers can be no more than wage labourers for the entrepreneur of the learning factory" (Marx)--Such peripheral phenomena, however, can *NOT* be ignored when considering Capitalist production as whole(!) As if education is a "peripheral phenomena" in the capitalist production process in the first place. Education and the arts are perhaps the most important aspects of the entire capitalist production process, as they determine its character and direction. Leave it to the materialists to downplay the value and significance of the arts in the capitalist production process.

And what character and direction are the capitalists promoting in our schools? What is art used for today but to perpetuate the capitalist production process? And What is the value of a liberal arts education in the job market today compared to a degree in say the maths or sciences? What is it about math and science that they like so much? helps them make better weapons to kill communists with? Even education in the liberal arts themselves suffer from the capitalist mode of production. Like it or not Marxism, Socialism and Communism are some of the most significant and influential ideas in the history of mankind. Yet The entire subject of Communism in United states history classes is comprised of two sentences, and when i raise my hand to ask the question: "But what is Communism?" The professor merely says: "It's a good idea, but never works in practice." that's it.--For the real definition of Communism, see @ReaLKarl_Marx. 

----It's a business, and the more students they can enroll, the more trees they can cut down, the more dormitories they can build, and the more students they can enroll, etc. Meanwhile, Free speech and independent thinking are discouraged and reprimanded, We must do as they say, write as they say. . . .

---Well, that's unfortunate, just because some other people who claimed to be Communist did certain things in the past that you consider unacceptable, i, Ashley Marx, am never allowed to write about Communism ever again?---No, i won't stop it! i like to write about Communism! i like Communism! Maybe if ~you~ would have hired me at your big city newspaper (i only sent my application a dozen times), i'd be writing restaurant reviews or critiques on art exhibits, about the environment, but now it's too late, and i'm already heavily invested in Communism. Now, i wouldn't accept a job as a columnist if you begged me! i rather like the freedom of being able to write whatever i want however i want, of not being forced to capitalize my "i"s and using comma splices to my advantage---i mean, who died and made you king of the English language? i will place my commas wherever i want, thank you very much. . . .

 According to Mao (not really, actually Ashley Marx), we must properly distinguish between the Big Capitalist / CEO and the Petite Bourgeois CEO, who may or may not run his or her own business, the amount of surplus value appropriated being in a smaller proportion to that of the Big Capitalist / CEO. The Petite Bourgeois Capitalist only serves to enrich the Big Capitalist CEO and will sometimes even do this at their own expense depleting their own personal finances and taking salary cuts just to stay in business.

. . . books take on a character and dimension of themselves, however: i like to liken this blogging platform to one of those secret, underground Russian printing presses that existed prior to the abdication of the Czar and would publish and distribute socialist literature to the Russian people, and which the Czarist regime would hunt down relentlessly so as to shut them down. i must be extra careful not to get caught by the capitalists doing what i am doing right now or they will send me to the gallows for distributing "Communist" literature. i say "Communist" literature, putting the word "Communist" in quotations because, by now, the Capitalist world has all but succeeded in defining Communism as a radically violent ideology that only advocates violent revolution and murder. This has been accomplished through their Capitalist monopoly of the Printing presses, media, and educational systems. They own the dictionaries, so they get to decide which definition goes with which word.---Well, who knows what other definitions that have changed / molded / altered to fit their own purposes. i have been building my own case on Merriam Webster and the word "Capitalism" for years now, but i can't keep track of every word: English has more words than any other language in the world. . . .

—“but” they say, “Why do you not simply self-publish? surely no one can censor you if you self-publish!" Well, that might be true, and i do plan on self-publishing several works shortly, but will i make any money if i self-publish through an independent website? Well, i might make some, through thrift and hard work, but, at the end of the day, in order to make it into the mainstream media, to reach a larger audience, and make the big money, you need Capital or the approval and backing of a capitalist. Otherwise, you will simply be buried, and what's more, they will never agree to sell my Communist literature in their Capitalist bookstores—this is not fair, in a market that is supposed to be based on competition, for one group of people to have an unfair advantage over another via a monopoly of the means of production, and, moreover, that publishing company 1. Will not print your book on paper, unless it meets certain criteria, or you pay ~them~(!), and 2. A portion of your proceeds ~still~ goes to them, thus depriving the community of a certain portion of money, and increasing the power of Capital….  The capitalists are literally unable to remedy this problem by some sort of invention, it's as if they are stuck in a vehicle that has already been set in motion, and Communist idealism as expounded in Capital Vol. 4 is the only solution.

Now, I ask you: who is doing this? Who can be doing this? Is it even a who, an actual human being or group of people? or is it rather a thing or idea, i.e., Capital???

3. on philosophy

People ask me all the time: "Why idealism? i don't get it!! Why synthesize Communist materialism with idealism? Why not, say, Existentialism?" Well, as we know from Hegel and Fichte, in order for there to be a synthesis, we first need a thesis and antithesis, and idealism is the antithesis of materialism: i can't synthesize the planet Mars with an Apple because there is no underlying correlation. At first, it seems like such a trivial, insignificant difference, but, as we shall see, this single word has major implications on both our conception of Communism and the practical application of Communist theory as well:

It is precisely because the communist materialists were materialists that they were unable to grasp the existence and significance of the abstract, of human pain and suffering, that their political and economic systems suffered---even Bukharin, who i love because he grasped the significance of philosophy was still a materialist and spent his time criticizing and attacking various schools of idealism in his book Philosophical Arabesques. Likewise, it was precisely because the communist materialists sided with materialism over idealism in their analysis that they didn't fully grasp the importance of Christ. Communist idealism, on the other hand, properly distinguishes between the idea of a religion and the church as a capitalist institution that perpetuates and reinforces capitalist modes of production, that the idea of a church (independent of Capitalism) in a communist society is not impossible. However, in Capitalist America, the capitalist even tells you how to interpret your bible; the church is merely a tool of the capitalist: "don't piece your body," the preacher tells you, "your body is a temple" (1 Co. 6:19-20)., but am i not free to decorate my temple however i want so as to glorify God? 

Neither do we seek to monopolize politics in North America, or to be the only political party in North America; on the contrary, we seek to open the doors to the formation of new political parties, we want real democracy! Instead of using authoritarianism like the communists materialists, we use democracy grounded in the institution of the state, and this is the mechanism with which we make our decisions. But more to come on this system and its exact features later.

Moreover, it was literally impossible for anyone (Rosa Luxemburg or even Karl Marx himself) to have properly expounded Communist idealism prior to me, because, you see, the digital revolution hadn't even happened yet. All previous mentions of Communist idealism failed to properly define idealism in the philosophical sense, but, rather, merely described it in terms of an ideal, e.g., 'the ideal of communism'. Even the so called Communist "idealists" who dealt with the *ideal*, not idealism, of Communism were still materialists! Did anybody read the forward to Capital when Karl Marx writes "I assume, of course a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for [her]self"!? Well, Karl Marx's "materialism" does not merely refer to the particular idea of historical materialism, but rather, also, forms the underpinnings of his entire analysis. we've tried Communist materialism, but let's try something new now, let's try Communism from the perspective of idealism:

So what if we can not have a worldwide or even state revolution, if all else fails, let us have a revolution in our own lives, let us seize the means of production in our own lives and give it to the people around us!---Yes, everything is an idea, but does that necessarily mean that they are all ~my~ ideas?

Philosophy is important merely from an Epistemological standpoint (helping us to determine what is meaningful or important---A Computer / mathematician / science can provide us with data and numbers, but it can't tell us how to apply that information, or what policy America should pursue towards Communist China. Not to downplay the sciences and maths, though. i think they also have their place and value in society, but what we are suffering from most in North America right now is a depreciation of the Liberal arts. You need that balance between the sciences and the liberal arts in order to have a truly enlightened and prosperous society, yet they do so little for the arts. i spit on your science and math degree, my English degree is worth 10x more: if i want to learn about IT or Physics, i need only open up a book.----meanwhile, while i teach myself Calculus and physics in 1/4 the time it took you to learn them, i want to see you write an entire 300+ page book---Go on! What's the ~Matter~ i thought writing was easy. That anybody could do it!

But what is philosophy? What makes a school of philosophy? And What distinguishes it from that which is not philosophy? Can i just take all my Tweets and say, "This is the philosophy of Jake!"??....


Well, perhaps.... I mean, not to totally discount the philosophy of Jake, it very well could be the next big philosophy, but I think more than anything a philosophy is defined by its content; a philosophy seeks to answer some sort of question, and more than that, its success is defined by how well it answers that question, what it contributes to the conversation, adds, and, above all, it must be ~new~, or force us to look at something that is not new in a fresh way or new perspective, otherwise, we are merely copying or recasting what has already been said, and, well, while there’s nothing wrong with that either, to defend an old philosophy from criticism can very well lead to the creation of something new, blatant plagiarism in and of itself is not productive or new (and thus does not itself constitute a new school of philosophy)…. 

“But how does one go about making something new? Is not everything merely recycled content as the saying goes, 'there is nothing new under the sun.?’" Well, are ~you~ not new? Are ~you~ not a unique individual that has never before been seen under the sun? Well, okay then, you must take that which is old and make it yours! Do not fear, The possibilities are literally infinite, anyone can make their own philosophy as long as they are truly new and don’t plagiarize somebody else. So, what will be ~your~ question? What question or themes will you seek to deal with?? Think about it, hone and refine your ideas, and then execute.... Just don't get lost in the dialectical process.

---Well, if Communist idealism isn't a philosophy, then ~prove~ to me why it isn't!? Don't just say it isn't new, prove it! Why is it not a philosophy? Because i, Ashley Marx, created it?? Well, where do you think philosophies come from? Do they just randomly appear out of nowhere? At some point, someone has to invent / make them up!--also, moreover, you have just inadvertently admitted that Communism idealism is new! 

But Communist idealism is not just about ~my~ art, or me in particular as an artist, who am i? i'm a piece of American trailer park trash, a nobody; no, it's not about me! but rather it's about every single Artist in the world, and the ~value~ that they can bring to the table! ---when will you materialists realize that they too have a value and a place in your society? 

To be fair, there were communists in the past who made art, or used art as means of propaganda to perpetuate their own communist *materialist* agenda, but the difference is that their art was motivated by their own individual aggrandizement, or the interests of a particular group, and not for the collective artist, nor was it stated that we should use the free production of art itself as a means of liberating the international proletariat as a whole and bringing about the complete and total destruction of Capitalism.---On the contrary, the difference between our Cultural, artistic movement and previous ones like Madame Mao's cultural revolution, is that we recognize the value and importance of ALL art, even "Capitalist" art: it isn't just about Pro-Communist / socialist art, but art as a whole, even if the content of that art carries a message that is anti-Communist.

Lastly, Whereas a large portion of western philosophy from Descartes onwards has been obsessed with the the notion of the individual and the ego, communist idealism seeks to dissolve the notion of the ego, to completely devastate your concept of individualism, to degrade and humiliate you, do away with all your selfishness, pride and greed: "Who are you!??" it yells, "What are you?? You are Nothing! You don’t even exist independent of the collective consciousness! You are merely an idea of God!..."