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I think the proposal below reflects theoretical lacunae that led to syndicalism
on the one hand and utopianism on the other, 'tho lessons on the art of
proletarian solidarity building were gleaned from both.
For capitalist surplus value to be transformed into socialist social value*,
State power remains necessary to tax a portion for the general welfare or human
societal services the most productive proletariat (exchangers of their labor
power for the means to reproduce it) may not consider essential, certainty not
in the early stages of unconscious transition, especially where labor is
slicing and dicing, manufacturing, packaging and delivering loans to sell
lenders. As the president said, when running in March 2008, when the measure
of our Gross Domestic PRODUCT is more determined by the sales of derivatives
than steel I beams, you know something is wrong. Or words to that effect which
persuaded me the man understands. Some of us might have preferred production
of commodities we deem more humanizing, or more free time instead of triple
over time in exchange for lay offs and declining union memberships, but we
did not have state power nor determine use value.
Limiting our understanding of surplus value to the context of the exploitation
of labor to extract maximum growth in what we can see today may as well be
called privatized monetized world average surplus time, social surplus, or
social value and
learning to explain it only in the context of organizing industrial workers'
wages and projected sale prices of the products of their particular industry,
was a function of the historic mode of production in which we organized and the
form in which data were available to us.
However it blinded us to fully utilizing what Marx and Engels bequeathed us to
strive(much less stride) toward socialism. In mho that is, and based of course
on my limited practice.
I thought of going back and changing our us and we to I my and me so
as to not appear to be speaking FOR others, but it is my opinion from the
practice of all other, and far better than I, organizers I've observed.
* definition of social surplus: difference between
world average time we workers add to products of same kind
minus
that that others put in what we have to pay
for to work another day
cf: www.peggydobbins.net/dwellingintents/epilogue.HTML to tune of Solidarity
On Nov 20, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Greg McDonald gregm...@gmail.com wrote:
Instead of their typical capitalist structures that split employers
from employees, a post-capitalist structure would position workers as,
collectively, their enterprise's own board of directors -- Marx's
associated workers. The era of capitalist employers (e.g., corporate
boards selected by and responsible to major private shareholders)
would then have come to an historic end. The capitalist class
structure of production would have been superseded by such a
collectivization of surplus appropriation inside enterprises (Wolff
2010).
For example, consider enterprises newly structured such that the
workers produce outputs in the usual way Mondays through Thursdays,
but on Fridays, assembled in both plenaries and subgroups, they make
decisions previously taken by boards of directors selected by (major)
shareholders. That is, the workers democratically decide what, where,
and how to produce and how to distribute their realized surpluses.
They decide when and how to expand and contract. But they do not do
that alone. They enter into co-respective power-sharing agreements
with the local and regional communities where their physical
production facilities are located. The workers participate in the
residential communities’ decision-making processes and vice-versa.[8]
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