“That is a tremendous and distinctive murals.” – Martin Nicolaus.
I had my first inquiry from somebody who wished to purchase a duplicate of my new pop-up e book. This offered me with a dilemma as a result of I had by no means supposed to promote copies of the e book. The rationale for not promoting seems in the e book – on pages eight and eleven. The character of capital is that “actual wealth should tackle a particular kind distinct from itself, completely not similar with it, with the intention to change into an object of manufacturing in any respect.” And…
…actual wealth is the developed productive energy of all people. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any method, labour time, however quite disposable time.
Actual wealth thus can’t be measured in cash. Any value I connected to the e book could be arbitrary. Why not $62,885,000? “However you aren’t Andy Warhol!” O.Okay., then $62,885? $6,289? $62.89 plus delivery? A banana duct taped to a wall bought for $6.2 million final week.
In The Unknown Unknown Marx, I wrote: Towards the top of his 1968 essay, “The Unknown Marx,” Martin Nicolaus quoted Marx’s enumeration of 4 boundaries to manufacturing below capital that “expose the idea of overproduction, the basic contradiction of developed capital.” Nicolaus certified what Marx meant by overproduction to be “[not] merely ‘extra stock’; quite, he means extra productive energy extra typically.”
Marx’s enumeration of these boundaries – the notorious ‘fetters’ on the event of the productive forces – supplies the textual content of web page eight of my e book.
 |
| Web page eight of Marx’s Fetters: a remedial studying |
“It “would require a e book,” Nicolaus then noticed, to current “a correct evaluation of the implications of those quite cryptic theses.” In lieu of that evaluation, he provided a synopsis that “these 4 ‘limits’ characterize not more than completely different elements of the contradiction between ‘forces of manufacturing’ and ‘social relations of manufacturing’.”
My competition is that the decoder ring for these ‘cryptic theses’ seems within the enigmatic assertion, “The entire improvement of wealth rests on the creation of disposable time.” The paragraph by which that assertion seems provides a concise clarification of what it means. Two paragraphs earlier, Marx had quoted from the 1821 pamphlet, The Supply and Treatment of the Nationwide Difficulities, “Wealth is disposable time and nothing extra…”
Marx’s modification of the phrase from identification to contingency is decisive. Disposable time is important for the event of wealth however not ample. This contingency returns with a vengence within the 4 boundaries, culminating within the assertion that “actual wealth has to tackle a particular kind distinct from itself… to change into an object of manufacturing in any respect.”
 |
| The entire improvement of wealth… |
Right here is my cnc chopping machine doing its factor: