Marx:
“The Development
of the
Social Individual”;
an Amendment.
GLOBAL STRATEGIC
HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
We
wish to propose, as illustrated in the diagram posted above, an amendment to
Marx’s “Productive forces and social relationships – the two different sides of
the development of the social individual…”
[David
McLellan, The Grundrisse: Karl Marx, Harper
& Row, NY,, 1971, p. 148].
We
hold that there are, not just two, but four fundamental dimensions
of the historical development of the human-social individual that should be
highlighted in any contemporary extension of Marxian theory, that is adequate
to the growth of scientific knowledge since Marx’s time.
Those
four dimensions are –
1. Yes, the history of the ‘social self-force of
human-societal self-re-production’: “productive forces” or “technologies
[of human life-expansion]” for short;
2.
Yes, the ‘social relations of human-societal self-re-production’: “social
relationships”, or [the history of human] “livelihood relations” for short;
3. But also: the history of human social formations,
and;
4. The [psycho]history of
human ideologies\knowledges.
These
four “sides” of the development of the human-social individual, as depicted
above, are shown as four historical-dialectical categorial progressions,
radiating from the four ‘‘‘poles’’’ – two horizontal and two vertical – of the
social- individual “core” of this diagram.
The
«arché» category, and the subsequent ‘self-hybrid’ ontological categories
of these four Domains of dialectical categorial
progression, to-date, are, we hold –
A. Social Formations:
1. «arché» category: b, for hunter-gatherer bands;
2. c,
for hunter-gatherer camps;
3. v,
for agricultural villages;
4. f,
for multi-village chiefdoms;
5. s,
city-states;
6. e,
for multi-city-state ancient empires;
7. n,
for nation-states.
B. Livelihood Relations
[“social relations of production”]:
1. «arché» category: A, for raw-Nature Appropriations by humans [e.g., hunter-gatherer-scavenger foraging & cannibalisms];
2. G,
for human-labor-modified Nature, i.e. Goods/Gifts;
3. C,
for bartered Commodities;
4. M,
for commodity-exchange-mediating Monies;
5. K,
for money-profits-targeting Kapitals.
C. Society-Expanding Technologies
[“Productive
Forces”]:
1. «arché»: h, human communities’ cooperative labor as energy-resource [e.g., communal hunting and gathering];
2. l,
social animals as energy-resources [e.g., herding];
3. b, de-socialized multi[-eukaryotic-]cellular bodies as energy-resources, e.g., human slavery [and ‘animal slavery’];
4. e, eukaryotic cells as energy-resources [e.g., yeast cells for our “daily bread”, as well as for beers and wines];
5. p, prokaryotic cells as energy-resources [e.g., bacteria-based cheeses – technologies for food preservation];
6. m, molecules as energy-resources
[e.g., natural gas];
7. a,
atoms as
energy-resources [e.g., atomic power].
D. Ideologies\Knowledges:
1. «arché» category: L for [initially only spoken]
Languages;
2. A,
for [e.g.,
initially only cave-wall, petroglyph & figurine]
Arts;
3. M,
for the story-units of Mythopoeias, or Mythologies;
4. R,
for doctrinaire, dogmatic Religions;
5. P, for speculative Philosophies;
philosophical schools;
6. K,
for observationally/experimentally corroborated
Knowledges [e.g., sciences];
Of
course, it must be admitted that, while each of these progressions, within each
of these four dimensions of the human-social individual, and of the development
thereof in human history, is relatively distinct and autonomous, and are
worthwhile to take notice of separately, but all are ultimately driven by, and
predicated upon, just one of them – on the growth of “the social forces of
production” [Marx].
This is so, in a subtlest form, even for the [psycho]historical development of --
ideologies\knowledges.
And,
also of course, each of these four distinct ontological-dialectical progressions
interacts with each of the others, in exceedingly complex ways.
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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;
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