Dear Psycho-History Group Members,

HYPOTHESIS: The Self-Degeneration of Competitive, Representative-Democratic Capitalism into Plutocratic, Totalitarian, Globally Multi-Genocidal State Capitalism -- or 'Government Capitalism' -- is a "Law Of Nature".

In the ascendant phase of the capitalist system, this degeneration is seeded by aperiodic political-economic "crises", arising mostly "behind the backs" of its producers, as a result of the course of the relation between "Money Capital and Real Capital", and Falling Profit-Rate / 'Techno-Depreciation' processes that go on in the "core depths" of that system, mostly unobserved at "the surface of [that] society".

In the decadent phase of the capitalist system, attendant upon the vast consolidation, centralization, and concentration of capital ownership, and of ruling class political power, that is concomitant to that phase, the "political-economic crises" are increasingly manipulated, orchestrated, and outright contrived by the ruling faction of the capitalist plutocracy, so as to destroy the power of rivals, and to further concentrate socio-politico-economic power in their hands alone.

This whole development is no less "Nature-al" than any other development in Nature -- as Marx pointed out in his Preface to .

We often fail to think of human-social development as something that falls under the "Laws of Nature" such as our science struggles to discern.

However, if we simply realize that humanity is a further -- and very "Nature-al" -- self-development of pre-human Nature; that humanity is not some kind of "intruder from outside of the universe", then we can begin to realize that there must be "laws", or self-[re-]enforcing patterns, of human-social self-development, just as there are "laws" of the self-development of other portions of Nature's spatio-temporality.

Products of human skill emerge from the initial appropriation of the "Mere",
"unimproved, "raw" products of Nature, by 'predationist',
"hunter-gatherer-scavenger", but "handy", proto-human[oids], who, as such,
develop the thumb/finger 'opposability', and the 'neuro-sociality', to actualize
this opportunity.

"Mere" Products, produced with growing human productivity, hence in local
surfeit, give rise to inter-tribal barter, i.e, to the emergence of the
'trade-able' "Commodity", the "exchange-value", from out of the mere [human]
"Product", with its initially 'exchange-value-less' added "use-value" above that
of the "raw appropriation" of Nature's products.

"Mere" Barter, as that practice grows with further growth of human productivity,
gives rise to Money, and the Money-mediated circulation of "Commodities",
accompanied by the subordination of Commodity to Money.

"Mere" Money circulation, as that practice grows, with further growth of human
productivity, gives rise to "Capital", i.e., to the 'auto-catalytic form of
exchange-value' -- to "Money which Makes [More] Money", and to the subordination
of "Mere" Money to Capital-Money -- first in the form of Merchant's Capital
[transporting Commodities, and selling them for more money than that for which
they were purchased].

Much later, Mercantile Capital gives rise to Industrial Capital [PRODUCING
Commodities whose Value is greater than the sum of the Values of their
ingredients].

Competition among industrial Capitals initially provides an economic
check-and-balance against over-pricing, under-quality, and other abuse of
consumers by industrial-capitalist producers.

It also tends to distribute money-based power and influence among many different
centers of industrial-capital power -- many separate, individual industrial
capitals -- so that representative democracy, and, with it, the political checks
and balances among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of the
state can function, militating against complete dictatorship by any faction of
the capital-ownership-based plutocracy.

Competition among individual industrial capitals leads to SUCCESSFUL
competition, which leads to the failure/disappearance of the losing capitals,
and, often, to their being swallowed up into the winning capitals, which grow in
scale, leading to the consolidation, centralization, and concentration of
industrial capital ownership.

The concentration of money resources that accompanies the concentration of
capital ownership means that, increasingly, the most concentrated faction of
capital ownership -- tendentially located in the energy [e.g., especially, the
petroleum] and the banking [commercial lending / finance / joint-stock market
securities] "industries" -- can increasingly buy -- prostitute -- all three
branches of political government, thus also increasingly obviating and
subverting the political checks and balances that used to function, to a degree,
among the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary branches.

This situation creates the FORMAL potential for a [self-]degeneration of the
formerly competitive capitalist, representative-democratic political-economy,
into a police-state dictatorship, with a state-capitalist political-economy,
ruled by a plutocracy which "owns" the state, but this potential does not, by
itself, explain why that potential, given all of the risks it also poses even
for the oil-finance plutocracy itself, tends to be actualized -- as we see
happening right now, before our very eyes, especially in the U.S., and the U.K.
-- toward a nightmarish, multi-genocidal, Orwellian Hell-On-Earth.

Note that the totalitarian police states of Great-Depression/WWII Italy
[Mussolini's "Fascism"], of Great-Depression/WWII Germany [Hitler's "Nazi-ism",
or "National Socialism"], of Great-Depression/WWII Russia [Stalin's "Communism",
"Socialism in one Nation"], as of Great-Depression/WWII Japan, Spain, Portugal,
Argentina, Hungary, etc., as well as that of Post-WWII China [Mao's "Communism"]
all represent PREMATURELY-MANIFESTED "species" of the same "genos":
totalitarian, multi-genocidal STATE-CAPITALISM.

We are often told that "Communism" and "Fascism" are "diametric opposites".

They are opposite "species", but only within the same "genos" of
STATE-CAPITALISM.

And STATE-CAPITALISM, per this HYPOTHESIS, is the predestined fate of
Capitalism; it is the terminal state that is built into capitalism's
['Phenomic'] "DNA" from the very beginning.

Great Depression/WWII+ "Fascism", Communism", and the rest were just early
warnings of the horrific destiny which, full-blown, is destined to manifest
first, and worst, at the very core of the capitalist system -- in the U.S., the
U.K., and in Western Europe.

It hasn't manifested there, full-blown, yet, but it has begun to be happening
before our very -- usually unseeing -- eyes, right now, especially, and at an
accelerating pace, during and since Bush 2.

Why then, is the mere formal potential for totalitarian dictatorship "lawfully"
carried forward into horrific actualization?

And why is that 'totalitarianization' "lawfully" accompanied by global
multi-genocide?


More subtle discernment, requiring lengthier expression, and evidence-citation,
is needed to account for this aspect of this "Law Of Nature".


For more on those crucial further stages of the argument of this Hypothesis, see
the essay entitled

"The Political-Economic Law of Motion of Modern, Capital-based Society" at
Global-Samizdat "dot Org".


For a potential way out, to a preservation AND 'EXTENTION' of "mere" Political
Democracy into 'Political-ECONOMIC Democracy', see the essay entitled
"Political-Economic Democracy" at Global-Samizdat "dot Org" website.

-- and the text of the proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at the
Equitism "dot Org" website.


For a fuller, but deeper rendition of the whole story, see the essay entitled
"Malady and Remedy", also at the Equitism "dot Org" website, and the essay
entitled "Global Strategic Hypotheses" at Global-Samizdat "dot Org" website.



For the alternative to our presently-emerging New / Final Dark Age: Global
Renaissance; a HUMAN Future,

Regards,

Miguel

What has all of this dialectics stuff have to do with psycho history?

Psychohistory Project Forum Participants,

Dear Psychology Lover

For an answer to your question, please see --

www.dialectics.org . . .

-- especially pages 7-8.

Regards,

Psi-Sci