Response Regarding Query “¿What is the Meaning of Communism?”.
Dear Reader,
I recently responded to an internet query, accessible via --
-- which was stated as follows:
“¿What is the Meaning of Communism?”
I replied approximately as follows --
Karl Marx described communism, in “the Grundrisse” -- an
1857+ massive manuscript that became the first of several drafts toward Marx’s
“Critique of Political Economy” as a whole, of which “Das Kapital” forms but
the first part of six planned parts -- as growing out of the seeds of
political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY already present within capitalism, in the form of
“share capital”, e.g., in the capital equity stock principle of “one share, one
vote”, a principle that, he predicted, would become generalized in the
transition from capitalism to its “lawful” higher successor system, of the
democratically “associated producers”: “Share capital ... is the
most perfect form (assuming the character of communism), together with all its contradictions.”
In “Das Kapital”, volume III, Marx’s describes the
transition to communism -- as to how the embryo of communism forms within the
womb of capitalism -- in terms of workers-owned capital, e.g., democratically
worker-managed producers’ cooperatives, part of the stage that my associates
and I call “workers’ capitalism”.
Marx also stated that, in nation-states where representative
democracy, with workers’ suffrage [workers having voting rights], had been
achieved, the transition to communism could probably be accomplished without
violent revolution, via the ballot box.
We see the constitution of a rule-of-law, democratic
transition to real communism -- to ‘Political-ECONOMIC
DEMOCRACY’ -- as arising via the popular recognition, and, later, via the
constitutional establishment, of three newly-discerned human rights which are
fundamental to the protection and flourishing of human individuals, and of humane
society as a whole, in advanced modern society.
They are --
A. The
human right of ‘Citizen Externality Equity’. This right enables citizens to vote for ‘‘‘public
directors’’’, forming second boards of directors, or second management
committees, INSIDE each of the local operating units of companies which produce
and accumulate “externalities” -- e.g., deadly pollution -- in those citizens’
local communities. These ‘boards of
public directors’ negotiate with the private directors/managers to reduce the
annual operating plan budgets of pollution, etc., “external costs”, with
recourse to a popularly elected “Tribunal for Externality Equity” if
negotiations deadlock, and with fees imposed for any external cost production
still allowed in those annual externalities budgets. This human right, of “grass roots
regulation”, supplements external regulatory bureaucracies, typically
“captured” and prostituted by the industries that they were supposed to
regulate, and also civil court litigation against deadly polluters, where
deep-pocketed industries can usually defeat underfunded citizen/worker law
suits.
B. The
human right of ‘Citizen Birthright Equity’ [‘societal
self-investment’].
Every child born under this new, Equitarian constitution and bill of rights,
will be a “trust fund baby”, in that each new citizen born will be granted,
funded partly by ‘Citizen Externality Equity’ pollution fees, partly by
‘Citizen Stewardship Equity social rents’, a lifetime fund, an
‘absolutely-portable’ individual/social-safety-net -- with legislated
restraints on its expenditure, so as to check the “moral hazard” potential of
such a trust fund -- to cover the basic necessities of human
life-opportunity: health care, college
education, first home purchase, business formation funding, and reparations to
victims in the event of conviction for a crime, etc. -- so that every child
born has a stake in society -- has “skin in the game” -- and so that society
has an investment in every child born, regardless of “what side of the tracks”
that citizen was born on. Should an
individual’s fund be exhausted, e.g., due to serial criminal conviction
reparations to victims, then that individual would fall back on more meager
external social welfare provisions.
C. The
human right of ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’. Lack of access to means of production renders
workers victims and playthings of the whims, and of the “lawful” depredations,
of the owners of capital. This human
right provides workers with the option of ‘collective self-employment’, via a
policy of ‘public venture “capital” ’, supporting ‘collective
entrepreneurship’. The Office of the
popularly elected national Custodian of Social Property grants
charters to per-legislation-qualifying citizen collectives, which then become
Social Banks, also organized as democratically self-managed ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equity’ cooperatives of a special kind, each granted an equitable
allocation of credits for the procurement of means of production. The ‘Social Banks’ compete for the most perceivably-viable
among other citizens’ self-organized collectives, that have per-legislation-qualifying
business-plans, including By-Law requirements for internal democratic
election/recall of their management teams, which, once their business plans are
funded by a Social Bank, become ‘socialized producers’ cooperatives’. The ‘Social Banks’ have “skin in the
game”. If they back too many Stewardship
Cooperatives that go bankrupt, they lose income, and may even become insolvent
themselves as a result. Likewise, to
survive, these ‘socialized producers’ cooperatives’ must prove themselves in
market competition against other socialized producers’ cooperatives, and against
remaining private capitalist firms, etc., that all produce for the same
market(s). The ‘Citizen Stewardship
Equity socialized producers’ cooperatives’ do not collectively or privately
“own” the means of production granted to them for their use by the ‘Social Bank(s)’
that back(s) them. Those means of
production are ‘‘‘Social Property’’’. The
citizen-members of the Stewardship Cooperatives do have the usufruct of, and
stewardship over, those means of production, a fact manifested in the ‘social
rents’ that they must pay, monthly, to the Office of the Custodian of Social
Property. These ‘social rents’ provide
income to the ‘Social Banks’ that backed these co-ops, and also help to fund
the ‘Citizen Birthright Equity socialized Trust Funds’, as well as to fund
means of production procurement for new ‘Stewardship Cooperatives’, to finance
‘technodepreciation insurance’, etc.
Private capitalism is not outlawed, but private-capital-based firms will
have to compete for workers against Stewardship Cooperatives wherein the
workers themselves decide how workers are to be treated.
There has been a largely-successful ‘conspiracy among
opponents’ -- an ‘antagonistic cooperation’ -- between the unelected real
rulers of “western” [state-]capitalism, and those of “eastern”
STATE-capitalism, to pass off the pure-state-bureaucratic-ruling-class dominated, totalitarian police-state
mass-murder regimes of “Soviet” Russia, Stalinist China, etc., as
“Communism”. In fact, those
dictatorships present nothing at all like the ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’
that Marx predicted. They actually
represent special, transient forms of Orwellian [proto-]State-CAPITALISM, so
that a form of CAPITALISM is being fraudulently passed-off as Marxian
communism.
Most people today, when they say “Communism”, actually mean
pure-state-bureaucratic-ruling-class State-CAPITALISM [as distinct from FASCISM
or NAZIISM, a form of State-Capitalism in which the private-capital-owning
ruling class is still either prominent, or still largely in-charge, sharing
power with the One-Party-State bureaucracy].
THIS IS THE BIGGEST “BAIT-AND-SWITCH” FRAUD IN ALL OF HUMAN
HISTORY TO-DATE!!!
And it has been co-perpetrated by the “western” capitalist
ruling class [e.g., the Rockefeller-eugenics political machine], and the
Lenino-Trotskyoid, Lenino-Stalinoid, and Stalino-Maoid “MarxIST” PSEUDO-Marxians!
Toward the end of his life, Marx foresaw -- via his in depth
study of capitalist political economy, of Russia in particular, etc. -- e.g.,
as he wrote in his draft letters to Vera Zasulich, and in the Preface to the
latter edition of “Das Kapital”, that social revolution was imminent in Russia
[Marx died in 1883. The ‘“first modern
Russian revolution’’’ erupted in 1905, 22 years later].
Marx wrote that, if the Russian Revolution was accompanied
by a revolution in the capitalist West, e.g., in Germany, and throughout
Western Europe, so that the advanced productive forces [‘‘‘industrial productivity’’’]
extant there could facilitate accelerated development of the social forces of
production in Russia, then Russia could escape the violence and the other horrors
of capitalist development -- including of the “primitive accumulation” of
industrial capital -- and accede more or less directly from the remnants of
primitive communism still then-extant in Russia, to the “higher communism” that
would then also co-emerge in Europe, and, later, worldwide.
In this passage, Marx did not explicitly predict what would
ensue if the Russian Revolution was isolated in Russia, and surrounded by
hostile, still-capitalist European and other powers. But the latter is exactly what did happen,
with the eruption of the ‘‘‘second modern Russian revolution’’’ in 1917, and
the failure of the 1918 revolutions in Germany and elsewhere.
Thus, Russia could not escape the horrors of the “primitive
accumulation” of industrial capital, which were made even more horrendous by
the desperation of the Leninist state-bureaucratic ruling class to
crash-develop a “military-industrial complex” [cf. Eisenhower], so as to deter
further invasions by, and “save its ass” from, the encircling, hostile, private-capitalist
military forces, hell-bent on snuffing-out both the Leninist ruling class, and
the remnants of the real Soviets [workers’ councils]
revolution in Russia.
Lenino-Stalinoid State-CAPITALISM became a new pathway for
the horrific “primitive accumulation” of industrial capital in the
underdeveloped, imperialized semi-periphery of the core capitalist system in Western
Europe and North America, falsely labeled “Communism” by both its Western
enemies and its Lenino-Stalinoid ruling class promoters and beneficiaries.
This query also calls to my mind the “dialectical theory of
everything” developed by a group that is relentlessly carrying forward Marx’s,
unfinished, work [by which I do NOT mean the
state-bureaucratic ruling-class, dictatorial perversions of the Leninist,
Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, ..., Castroist, and Unist state-CAPITALIST
ideologues, fraudsters, and mass murderers] in the five key domains which Marx
and Engels were not able to bring to fruition before their deaths.
Those unfinished domains of Marxian theory and practice
include:
(1) that of the detailed nature of the Marxian dialectic
method;
(2) that of the dialectic of Nature, and of the Marxian
immanent critique of the ideology that pervasively compromises the modern sciences,
including, not just the economic and other social sciences, but the natural
sciences and mathematics as well;
(3) clarification, including clear and ‘quanto-qualitative’
definition, of the central Marxian concept of “the social forces of production”
-- of ‘the human-societal self-force of human-societal self-re-production’ --
in relation to a ‘Meta-Darwinian’ concept of human-species ‘‘‘fitness’’’ in
terms of the rate of human-societal self-reproduction, as well as the
interrelated clarification of the core Marxian concept of “the social relations
of production”, e.g., of the “capital-relation”, of the “money-relation”, of
the “commodity-relation”, etc. This
‘Meta-Darwinian’ theory recognizes the role of ‘the human Phenome’ as well as
of the ‘the human Genome’ in increasing the ‘self-force’, and thereby the rate,
of human society in accelerated expanded social self-reproduction;
(4) that of the detailed nature of the liberatory,
Political-ECONOMIC-DEMOCRATIC society -- founded upon the new, unprecedented
social relation of production -- which is the “lawful” higher successor system
to [State-]Capitalism;
(5) that of the detailed causation-dynamics of the
ever-worsening catastrophic global economic depression-crises, wars, and
genocides that advise us all of the growing need for us to transcend
[state-]capitalism, by creating that successor system, of grass roots
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.
Regards,
Miguel
SOLUTION –
‘Equitist
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’;
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