This post is part 3 of a new series designed to present the Principles behind the F.E.D. Dialectical "Theory of Everything" in a less mathematical, more broadly accessible, and briefer form.
Universal Principles of Marxian, Dialectical Science, 3: "Formal Domination" versus "Real Domination".
This principle is a generalization of those presented by Marx in a Chapter that he prepared for volume I of Capital [Chapter VI.], but did not publish, entitled '''Results of the Immediate Process of Production'''.
See: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/index.htm
In his Chapter, Marx distinguishes between an earlier phase within the history of capitalism, which he characterizes as that of the "Formal Subsumption of Labor under Capital", and a succeeding phase, which he characterizes as that of the "Real Subsumption of Labor under Capital".
For the core geography of the capitalist world system / global market, per F.E.D., the first phase corresponds to the "ascendant phase" of the capitalist system ["low" c/v], and the second phase to the "descendant", or "decadent", phase [though Marx does not say this explicitly].
Suppose -- for epoch 2 of a still-progressing historical-dialectical progression of instantiated systems, or of instantiated ontological categories, connoting various kinds, or <<species>>, of units, or of <<monads>>, or of holons, gathered together into "numbers", or "populations", or <<arithmoi>> -- that this historical progression, which begins with the system/ontological category/population/"number" of <<monads>> denoted A, for <<Arche'>>, has the form --
A + B + q/BA + C
-- wherein C = q/BB, the "self-conversion", into <<arithmos>> C, of parts of the <<arithmos>> of <<monads>> denoted by B.
Then the "cumulum" --
A + B + q/BA + C
-- describes the epoch of the merely "Formal Subsumption", or "Formal Domination", of A, B, and/or q/BA, by C.
This is because, although C is possibly extant per this "cumulum", this "cumulum" of terms contains no terms explicitly representing the possibility of interaction of C with A, B, or q/BA -- or of explicit subsumption / conversion of A, of B, and/or of q/BA -- by C.
Then also, for epoch 2+1 = 3, the "cumulum" represented above "self-squares" [Mandelbrot], and expands, to the "larger" "cumulum" --
A + B + q/BA + C + q/CA + q/CB + q/CBA + D.
Therein, the sub-series q/CA + q/CB + q/CBA, together with C itself, represent the "Real Subsumption", or "Real Domination", of A, B, and q/BA -- of all prior ontology -- by C.
The term D represents the outbreak of a "third antithesis" ontological category, or system, oppositional/supplementary to all of A + B + q/BA + C + q/CA + q/CB + q/CBA, and this epoch 3 is that of the merely "Formal Subsumption", or merely "Formal Domination", of all previously-outered ontology, by the ontology denoted by D.
These same principles, as described above, apply, via "qualifier induction", likewise to later epochs, beyond epoch 3.
Example:
In the -- modified -- F.E.D. historical-dialectical model of the "meta-evolution" of the human "social relations of production" -- modified by making the Commodity-relation category, C, the <<arche'>> such category, replacing the "deeper" <<arche'>> that F.E.D. uses, the epoch 2 "historical cumulum" --
C + M + q/MC + K
-- represents the phase of the "Formal Domination", or "Formal Subsumption", by K, denoting the Capital-social-relation-of-production, of the Commodity-social-relation-of-production, denoted by C, of the Money-social-relation-of-production, denoted by M, and of their Monies Mediated Commodities Circulations dialectical synthesis of M with C, denoted by q/MC.
We take K, by itself, to represent what Marx calls the "antediluvian" forms of capital -- e.g., usurer's capital, mercantile capital, guild-like worker-owner capital, and large-scale, "latifundial" slavery-based agricultural productive capital, etc. --
The latter are forms of the capital-relation that arose prior to the emergence of the capitalist system, arising inside prior, antique modes of production -- modes of production which were not, overall, capitalist, which were less complex, less developed, and which were less [self-[re-]]productive [characterized by a lower level of the human social forces of production] than capitalism must be if it is to fully emerge, and which arose in a context where human social relations of production other than the capital-relation were socially, politically, and economically predominant.
The epoch 3 "historical cumulum" --
C + M + q/MC + K + q/KC + q/KM + q/KMC + E
-- represents the phase of the "Real Domination", or "Real Subsumption", by K -- denoting the Capital-social-relation-of-production, and, in particular, the large-scale industrial capitalist <<species>> of the capital-relation -- of the Commodity-social-relation-of-production, denoted by C, per the term q/KC, connoting "Commodity Capital"; of the Money-social-relation-of-production, denoted by M, per the term q/KM for "Money Capital"; and of their Monies Mediated Commodities Circulations dialectical synthesis of M with C, connoted by q/MC, per the term q/KMC, standing for the appropriation, by the capital-relation, K, of the Monies Mediated Commodities Circulations dialectical synthesis of M with C, for/as the core capitalist process of the '''circulation of the total social capital'''.
Note: F.E.D. has an error in their glossary definition of the term "capitalism", because they identify the capitalist system with K = q/MM alone, rather than with --
K + q/KC + q/KM + q/KMC.
See: http://www.dialectics.info/dialectics/Glossary_files/D.I.,Post,Phono-Neograms,%5BC%5D.w3_OCR.pdf
The term E in the series above connotes the Possibility-Space irruption of a human social revolution within the global capitalist system, and the new, higher human social relations of production to which a successful such revolution would give rise.
See: http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm
Regards,
Miguel
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