Dear Reader,
Reproduced below is one of Karl Seldon’s most characteristic
characterizations of the cognitive psychohistorical causal core of modern human history [E.D.
edits applied] --
“As Marx was so
often wont to note, modern, “capital-relation”-centered society, centered on the “capital-relation” as predominant “social relation of production”, is the form of
society ‘‘‘founded on [the] exchange-value’’’, and, as we so often note, Marx’s
‘‘‘elementary or accidental
form of [Commodity-]value’’’, the arche'-category of the categorial dialectical progression content of Marx’s magnum opus, Das Kapital, is the uttermost root thereof, the uttermost root of ‘‘‘the
exchange-value’’’, and of all of its profound psychohistorical consequences.”
“That ‘‘‘elementary
form of value’’’
is, we hold, the, mostly-unconscious,
ideological core paradigm of the ‘Modern «Mentalité»’ entire, of the ‘Modern Human Phenome’:
the equal valuation of pairs of qualitatively different Commodity objects /«arithmoi» as if
by “pure quantity”
alone, C--M--C' in Marx’s personifications ‘praxis-algebra’ -- by means of a third
«arithmos» of [Money-]objects, implicitly expressing a qualitative common denominator for
that pair of
otherwise disparate Commodity objects, one whose common character [presently
socially-necessary abstract labor-time cost of reproduction] is typically unconscious for its users, thus inculcating, in
the cognitive neuro-plasticity of those users, the semblance of a “purely quantitative” praxis.”
“The Modern
World -- the world of the capital-relation, of the alienated labor relation
[the sold-labor, wage-labor-relation] -- with all of its
pluses and minuses, vis-a-vis the previous incarnations of collective humanity, and
of the ‘human phenome’, stems from this!”
-- a characterization which I feel to be eminently worthy of your deepest consideration.
Regards,
Miguel
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