Dear Marxism-Thaxis List Members,
Hello, this is my first post here.
I recently noticed the surfacing of what is, in my experience -- at least in
terms of what it claims about itself -- a new and
unprecedented KIND of Marxian, revolutionary organization, on the world wide
web.
It is called the Equitarian Advocacy Group, and it advocates a kind of
Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, one which is based upon public
ownership and democratic disposition of what it names as EXTERNALITY
EQUITIES.
The new sites are at:
_http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Equitism-entry.htm_
(http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Equitism-entry.htm)
_http://www.equitarian.org/Equitarian/Equitarian-entry.htm_
(http://www.equitarian.org/Equitarian/Equitarian-entry.htm)
_http://www.equitist.org/Equitist/Equitist-entry.htm_
(http://www.equitist.org/Equitist/Equitist-entry.htm)
What I find so refreshing about this group's promises is, especially, its
promise to not only NOT work to take state power for ITSELF and
its Members, but, if a government committed to the equitarian programme does
comes to power -- a result for which the Advocacy
Group pledges to work -- the Advocacy Group promises to stay completely OUT
of that government, and to work to check tendencies to
the abuse of its power within that new government.
See:
_http://www.equitist.org/Equitist/InternalAffairs/InternalAffairs.htm_
(http://www.equitist.org/Equitist/InternalAffairs/InternalAffairs.htm)
Preamble, point 4.
Another aspect of this group's theory that I like -- whether I end up
agreeing with it or not - is their clear articulation of the new
Social Relation of Production that they see as the successor to the
presently-dominant Social Relation Of Production, i.e., to the
Capital-relation.
They call this new Social Relation of Production the [Generalized]
Equity-relation, and they derive it as
one having a dialectical, aufheben self-negation relationship to the
Capital-relation.
On this, see, for example --
_http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalE
conomicDemocracy.htm_
(http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy.htm)
[be sure to copy the complete, multi-line URL into your browser in order to
reach this essay].
Finally, I appreciate -- again, whether I end up agreeing with it or not --
this group's clear articulation of what they conclude to be the
essence of Marx's critique of Capital's political-economy, namely, what Marx
called the economic law of motion of modern society.
On this, see, for example --
_http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/Politica
lEconomicLawOfMotion.htm_
(http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion/PoliticalEconomicLawOfMotion.htm)
The theoretical roots of this group seem to be mainly Marxian, but the Group
seems to transcend, and to critique, both today's "Left" and
today's "Right" ideologies.
For more on this, see --
_http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/HeartSoulOfMarxianTheory/HeartSoulOfM
arxianTheory.htm_
(http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/HeartSoulOfMarxianTheory/HeartSoulOfMarxianTheory.htm)
_http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/TowardsAStrategyForHumanity/TowardsAS
trategyForHumanity.htm_
(http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/TowardsAStrategyForHumanity/TowardsAStrategyForHumanity.htm)
[be sure to copy the entire, two-line URL into your browser to get to any of
the linked texts listed above].
This Advocacy Group also seems to transcend the antinomy of Revolution
versus Reform, holding that its equitarian
reforms are what might be called revolutionary reforms -- reforms that, if
adopted, would drive the adopting society through a
revolutionary transformation, beyond capitalism, to Political-ECONOMIC
DEMOCRACY.
It would be interesting to know what this Marxian Theory/Praxis Group thinks
about this new approach to the social revolutionary transition
to Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY.
Regards,
Miguel
P. S. I found out about this new org. via a dialectics site I have been
keeping an eye on --
_http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures-I
n-Dialectics-entry.htm_
(http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures-In-Dialectics-entry.htm)
via the preface to the latest article posted there --
_http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/MetaMonadolo
gy/MetaMonadology-entry.htm_
(http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/MetaMonadology/MetaMonadology-entry.htm)
-- in the following opening passage:
"What this text addresses, in toto, is the '''psycho-historical''',cognitive
revolution that F.E.D. is offering. It's deeper title, then, should be:
Announcing a Cognitive Revolution, Necessary Precursor to Humankind's
Self-Liberatory Self-Transformation Beyond the Capit
