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(JAI: Note that the members of the RAC-LA Food Program (examined in the paper) will celebrate our 3rd anniversary of 'serving the people' on Nov 14. I can forward pdf (or Word doc) to any one who wants to read the full paper.) ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Theory in Action Journal of TSI <mailto:jour...@transformativestudies.org> *To:* johnaim...@earthlink.net <mailto:johnaim...@earthlink.net> *Sent:* Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:40 AM *Subject:* Your manuscript publication with Theory in Action Dear John, Once more, congratulations for the publication of your manuscript "Marx's examination of the circular movements of capital and the economic contradictions between anarchists, socialists and communists or The ordering of production in the coming socialist commonwealth". It is scheduled to appear in the online and print versions of Vol. 3, No. 4 of Theory in /Action/, October, 2010. http://www.transformativestudies.org/publications/theory-in-action-the-journal-of-tsi/ Feel free to share your complimentary PDF version of your manuscript attached to this email with family, friends, and colleagues. It has been a pleasure working with you and we hope you will consider us for your future works. Best Wishes, The Editorial Collective Theory in Action-The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute 39-09 Berdan Avenue Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 USA www.transformativestudies.org <http://www.transformativestudies.org/> "Putting Theory into /Action/" *Marx' examination of the circular movements of capital and the economic contradictions between anarchists, socialists and communists* *or* *The ordering of production in the coming socialist commonwealth * * ABSTRACT* An opening towards a discussion on rapprochement between anarchists, socialists and communists framed within an economic analysis of the features of the coming socialist commonwealth as counter-posed to the features of the circuits of capitalist production as described by Marx in "Capital Vol 2"; and, as demonstrated, in incubus, in the "serve the people" work of RAC-LA. * ASSERTIONS * There can exist no political equality where there is not economic equality. RAC-LA's "Food Program" is an experiment in pure anarchic-communism.* * Marx' examinations of the circuits of production can be extended into a fourth circuit, that of Consumption. There exists a "conservation of value" throughout the circuits of production. * * ** Capitalist commodity production will be replaced by socialist commodity production with society itself as the appropriator of the surplus. The members of the socialist commonwealth, with freedom of choice, will pre-order their chosen commodities thereby bringing production and distribution into accordance. Given the pre-orders of the members of the commonwealth; and, given an assay of the existing productive forces; the prices of goods follow from their costs-of-production + the value-added of the planned surplus. Each member of the commonwealth ought receive equal entitlement to shares of the commonly produced goods and services. An after-market akin to a socialist e-bay will account for changes in desires subsequent to the ordering process as members trade certificates for goods and/or services. Hiring (and firing) decisions ought be made by the workforces. Frederick Taylor's " trial and error" procedure, similar to Walras' /tatonnement /process, provides the mechanism by which a socialist commonwealth can calculate the value of the factors of production and the Austrian "economic problem" is solved. P26. Oskar Lange's "commodification of leisure-time" provides a possible mechanism for the amelioration of economic antagonisms on the left as well as the preservation of incentive in the coming socialist commonwealth . Part of the necessaries required for the social needs (the Social Surplus) will consist of "occupation fees" from labor in the form of job-assessments or payments by the worker for his right to work, her choice of occupation. Part of the necessaries required for the social needs will consist of the portion of the total commodity-value formerly accruing to the capitalist as surplus-value and part will come from an expansion of the productive capacities. The commonwealth will effect a shift from a pricing schedule based upon prices-of production to a schedule based upon value (embodied abstract human labor.) And, the products of labor-intensive industries would experience a marked increase in consumer price. The transition from socialism to communism will be a gradual (really, a graduated) process. *Appendix* The examination of equilibrium is extended into the 4^th circuit of production, Consumption. *J**ohn A. Imani *is a (Self-described) "Anarcho-Marxist revolutionary living in Los Angeles, and a founding member of Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, Los Angeles (RAC-LA)." Address correspondence to: John A. Imani; e-mail: johnaim...@earthlink.net. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
