Value is the amount of socially necessary labor in commodities. Equivalent values is the pivot of commodity exchange. Production capacity in the case of Detroit's Big 3, generally runs between 70% and 80% each. 20% + 20% + 20% = 60% over- the- capacity. (psssst. Dhey comin. Red Coats; the robotic regime.) WL
In a message dated 2/4/2009 11:51:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, writes: >> Perhaps we can get an understanding of the issues on this thread by imagining Waistline's totally robotized or automated factory. As Walter Reuther said (to Ford ?) if automobile production is 100% robotized, then who will buy the cars produced ? This refers to a zero profit realization problem for capitalists when there is zero consumption. If workers aren't paid anything the masses are in absolute poverty and absolutely restricted consumption, and they can't buy anything. So, the capitalists have zero realized profit.<<< Comment Let's place the entire labor forces producing auto's in America at one million. Autoworkers did not buy 17 million vehicles . . . a year, in the American market, between 2001 - 2007. Let's examine this "visionary" machine world of Soylent Green. (Soylent Green is people!) In the world of 100% automated production, in a galaxy far, far, away, there are no people; only classes of machines creating products, that cannot, on there own acquire a commodity form. Commodity exchange presupposes an exchange with human labor via a division of labor; this gives a product its commodity form. The machine world products are loaded and ship to another galaxy to compete in the intergalactic market, with identical products produced by various kinds of biological life forms - labor. In this relationship the machine planets products are valueless and without price, but can fetch a price form - cost, based on the "biological entities," pricing of their products. (Break . . . stop . . . Sounds like the two drunk capitalists, discussing the old Soviet Union, laughing hysterically. "If the Bosheik's oerthrow world kapitalism, they have to set up a kapitalist countries just to price their products). Something is wrong is the far, far away galaxy. Biological world grows increasing poor, not knowing that only relative equal amounts of value are exchangeable. Machine world has no trees, gardens, lakes or Oceans 11 or Julia Roberts. There are no people to shut out of production as the bottom line base to establish the cost of reproduction on machine world. Nor is there a fetish attaching itself to products, because "machine worlds" products exist in a direct relationship to the machines without a market. There is no commodity form to fool the machines. One machine is interactive to with all machines through the world wide web. The exchange relations of "machine world" and "biological's" cannot stand because no matter how the biological's price their commodities, "machine world" undercuts their prices, faster than you can say, "Scotty beam my ass up quick." The biological's enter into a most vicious and nasty competition; driven to lower the cost of their products, decrease the socially necessary biological inputs in commodities and then lower wages, while importing complex machinery from the machine world to boost capacity of their productive forces, only to find themselves worse off than the preceding worse off. The machine world products are perpetually overproduced because production is run 28/9. (24/7 on earth) Yet, there is never any overcapacity. There exists other machines on "machine world," designed to recycle the excess products made by the other machines. Excess products are destroyed and recycled through the system for a cost that is 20% above, what the machines need to maintain their functionality; a profit? The machines have no need for profit but this old mathematical relationship persists as programing, the function of other machines, 12,000 years after the biological founders have left the planet. This profit is made without surplus value because their is no labor to exploit, or what is the same, the modern world of "financialization." The profits made from financialization is not really profits, but a recognized form of wealth.This very real wealth is digital inputs stores in machines, able to be converted into currency with no value, due to the biological's severing the relationship between gold and money. But this currency buys things that contain increasing less biological matter. For Marx, the Source of profits is not in the Matrix, - not was, surplus value, which acquires a monetary form. The 100% automated world produces no commodities, only products. Produces and exchange's - not value, only "valueless profits" or "valueless wealth," that is sent to them through computers as digital inputs. In year 2000 on our earth, Ford Motor Company held a nationwide telecast with all its employee's stating the next few years would be a period of "profitless prosperity," exact words. I wrote about this on Pen-L at the time and went berserk, screaming "the robots are coming, advanced robotics, the robots are coming." Marx speaks of the historical tendency of capitalist accumulation. "The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated." Yes, yes. How has this process worked itself out? The historical limit of capitalist production is the operation of capitalism metabolism. This metabolizing is driven exclusively by biological inputs - labor. Scene 2 What was feudalism historical limit? It was reached. Waves of political revolutions sweep the earth. "The King is Dead, Long live the Quee . . . They got the Queen to, I'm out of here." Then . . . the political system of feudalism was overthrown by new classes created as a result of a revolution in the machinery of society. For good reasons the early formed proletariat rebelled against the machine, . . . to no avail. We still rage against the machine. The steam engine did not bring feudalism to an end, but rather was another marker, indicating the rise of a new technological regime; or the historical limitation of feudalism; or rather the end of its quantitative expansion as a system of production. A mode. Not as abstraction but rather as a system founded upon a historically specific configuration of productive forces and corresponding form of wealth. Feudalism is a political term derived from the word fief. Feudal society is founded on the landed property relations, limited and narrow commodity production and manufacture, which passes through distinct quantitative boundaries up to the marker - steam engine. The change in the form of wealth from land to gold is what really began the breakup of the landed property relations. This change in the form of wealth precedes the historical limit of feudalism, by a couple hundred years, and blared its horn of a coming change: . . . Jacob at the Walls of Jericho. Manufacture develops intensively and extensively; then a new qualitative configuration of machines - a product of the mind, are quantitatively, incrementally introduced into the production process. The Dark City shifts, but no one can see the light. The change wave cannot yet be seen. As the pace of quantitative, incremental inputs of this new quality of machinery quickens, from a trot to a mad dash, manufacture, as it once expanded extensively and intensively, gives way to; shifts again and again; causes reconfiguration of the infrastructure and creation of a new one; now development and expansion on a new basis - platform or new technological regime, explodes. A new technological regime or new configuration of machinery slowly emerges into the light. Manufacture, as a distinct configuration of productive forces and a self contained process, contains its own logic: has/had a metabolism. "morphology, longevity, incept date." Scene 3 The machine world morphs in Los Angeles 2017 - Blade Runner. Roy Batty a synthetic human, has escape from an off world colony, high jacked a ship, made his way to earth; discovers the emotional pain of life and death basis . . . is capital in pants and leather jacket. With a life cycle; a historical limit, . . . . as does all productive forces and mode of productions. Roy is a productive force. The quest-in called forth by the pre-existing answer, collapses, in onto itself. It never changes: "morphology, longevity, incept date." Roy makes his way to the uppermost ribbon in the sky to meet his maker. Mister Tyrel Tyrel: "I'm surprise you did not come here sooner." Roy: "Its not an easy thing to meet your maker. Tyrel: "What can he do for you?" Roy: "Can the maker repair what he makes?" Tryel: "Would you like to be modified?" Roy: "I had in mind something a little more radical." Tyrel: "What seems to be the problem?" Roy: "Death!" Tyrel: "Death?" "Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction . . . you . . ." ( Capital or rather Roy pleads, ) "I want more life father." Tyrell: "The facts of life. To make an alteration in the evolution of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it has been established." Roy: "Why Not?" Tyrell: "Because, by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revenant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship, then the ship sinks." Roy: "What about EMS recombination?" (expansion of the credit market) Tyrell: "We already tried it. Ethyl Methane Sultanate as an alkalizing agent and a potent mutagen. It created . . . a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table." Roy; "Then a repressor protein, that blocks the operating cells." Tyrel: "It wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strands carry a mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you." Roy: "Not to last." Tyrell: "The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burnt so very very bright Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize." Roy: "I've . . .done questionable things." Tyrel: "Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time." Roy: "Nothing the god of bio mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for." Scene 4 Real life America: Thursday February 5, 2009 a discussion of the historical limitation of capitalist production as consumption of living labor, is different from the wage earners consumption of congealed living labor converted - value, in commodities. All consumption is not created equal. Only capital endows capital only, with the inalienable right to life and the pursuit of happiness. Consumption by the masses properly fits within "the mode of distribution." The mode of distribution of labor, as the production of commodities, is the domain overseen by the gods of capital. One can only distribute that which has already been produced, (outside nature's spontaneous bounty). The mode of distribution corresponds to/expresses the fact of property, as it determines on what basis that, which has been produced . . . will be distributed. Capital must absorb wage labor, metabolize it as the creation of an expan ding value, or rather ever increasing mass of commodities; whose value can only be again metabolized and realized through the cut throat world of competition. This in turn drives capital to lower the cost of labor ability, or lower the paying cost of socially necessary means of life . . . . faster, than the falling lost of labor ability. This allows a momentary increase in the amount of labors hired, which drives the process to the inevitable and inexorable cycle of decreasing value inputs. Momentary up ticks - blurps across the computer screen, . . . increase of the mass of workers, whose total mass is a lower quantity of value expressed as wages as a ratio of what is produced. Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away . . . . Capital is a vampire. (Hide the women, children and temporary workers 30% of the workforce and rising.) The cycles impact on consumption is good discussions because the working workers must lose their ability to consume. Feast for some, starvation for others, its all the same to the three card monty man. Or things could get nasty and everybody get plenty of nothing. In the battle between the stomach and the head the stomach is going to win. We have to inform the head. The workers do not lose their ability to consume because they lose their ability to consume. Operating like/as a blind law of nature, birthed unto a world wide restricted consumption rooted in scarcity and dwarfish pigmy productive forces, capital converted and metabolizes all, causing scarcity to be based in abundance. 60% overcapacity with Detroit's Big Three, might be factual, but not the truth. The truth of the fact is world automotive capacity against what it takes for reproduction on an expanding scale. The way out of all crisis of capital, without exception is far out: destruction of productive forces; the bleeding ones and the non-bleeding ones. The next generation of plants and vehicles is not machine world. "I had in mind something a little more radical." Another drop below the reproduction cost of another segment of the world proletariat. Having no seat when the music stop is a bitch. WL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to stocks and so much more. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from _http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm_ (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to stocks and so much more. **************Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to stocks and so much more. 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