In a message dated 11/26/2010 8:20:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, _pegdobb...@gmail.com_ (mailto:pegdobb...@gmail.com) writes: So am I to hope my children are less bamboozled by SW than we by SV? My son tells me Netflix is useful to him and has higher "earnings"(that's SV, right?) than USS Comrade My intent was not to ignore your question. I am a regular user of Netflix, with specific grips about which movies are regulated to mail and not available for instant "play." Their mix of models seems to run behind our technology capacity and the needs of consumers. My comments were meant to be on the level of changes - qualitative, in the meaning of system - finance capital today, rather than during the time of Lenin. Posing this thread as "Did Lenin predict" implies no fundamental changes in the actual functioning of finance capital. Finance capital once referred to banking capital and earlier merchant capital, in my opinion. I offer as "proof" of qualitative changes in the functioning of finance capital the rise of a new post 1973 rise - to be exact, of NON BANKING financial architecture. The quality that has changed is the substance of modern finance capital that is outside of and evolves based on detachment from production of surplus value. In my opinion a form of wealth can change qualitatively before the production relations of a society leap forward. The form of wealth of bourgeois society has changed. Wealth as a "property" of the ruling class has not changed. This happened as the leap - transition, from feudalism to capitalism. The primary form of private property as the feudal relation was land as opposed to ownership of tools or means of production. What began the breakdown of feudalism was the transition in the form of wealth from land - as primary, to gold or movable property. Wealth today is a very super symbolic abstract thing not riveted to gold or any tangible. This is the change.
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