The Value Hidden Behind the Valuing of [Economic] Value.
Dear Reader,
Marx’s analysis, in his «Grundrisse»,
and in the four volumes of his Capital: A Critique
of Political Economy, three of which were still incomplete at the time
of his death, reveals the core of qualitative use-value to be the creative
concrete labor of human beings, and the core of quantitative [economic
exchange-]value to be ‘“abstract labor; enough hour units of abstract
labor-time, presently socially necessary to reproduce
the good or service quantity in question”’.
A seldom-noted implication
of this, Marx’s dialectical, immanent critique of the ideology-vitiated science
of classical capitalist political-economics, is the following.
Even those, e.g., Scrooges, who say – or who do not
say, but betray, by their conduct – that they value only ‘value-able’ objects,
and/or only money/capital/profit, and despise human beings; who value only the ‘object-ifications’
of capitalist production, divorced from the human subjects, the ‘subject-ive’ sources,
from which those ‘object-ifications’ issue, are actually inadvertently valuing and
celebrating human creativity, albeit in an estranged form.
Greed for capitalist
wealth, greed for profits, greed for monies, greed for ‘value-able’ objects,
including for luxury and status commodities – for expensive jewelry, palatial
homes, luxurious automobiles, huge yachts, high-end fashions, prestigious works
of art, and high status objects of many other kinds – to be enjoyed and
celebrated individualistically, or within wealthy families, etc., expresses a kind
of humanism, albeit in an estranged and inverted form.
It does so because,
behind all of these objectifications is the creative, productive power of
humanity, of human activity, of human labor – of human living time.
Direct valuing and celebration of ‘object-ive’ wealth is an indirect
valuing of ‘subject-ive’ wealth, of the human subjects who create that
object-wealth, of the creative power of the activity of human subjects in their
well-used living time.
Such individualistic ‘valuing activity’ is an unconscious
and inverted form of collective human solidarity – inverted
because expressed in a privatized, individualistic, exclusionary
form.
¡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;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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