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In a message dated 5/21/2010 7:20:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, l...@panix.com writes: _http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/2010/05/21/as-dalai-lama-embraces-red-will -marxism-help-where-hollywood-failed/_ (http://trueslant.com/abytharakan/2010/05/21/as-dalai-lama-embraces-red-will-marxism-help-where-hollywood-failed/ ) DL: I think the major flaw of the Marxist regimes is that they have placed too much emphasis on the need to destroy the ruling class, on class struggle, and this causes them to encourage hatred and to neglect compassion. Although their initial aim might have been to serve the cause of the majority, when they try to implement it all their energy is deflected into destructive activities. Once the revolution is over and the ruling class is destroyed, there is nor much left to offer the people; at this point the entire country is impoverished and unfortunately it is almost as if the initial aim were to become poor. I think that this is due to the lack of human solidarity and compassion. The principal disadvantage of such a regime is the insistence placed on hatred to the detriment of compassion. Comment The Church has survived more modes of production than Evel Keneivel survived crash landing. Ultimately Evel gave up the flesh in 2007. The value relations has hit the wall of history. This wall of history is the rise of a qualitatively new technology regime calling forth social revolution. A section of every ruling class completes the leap to a new mode of production, while serving as an agent - social force, destroying the old production relations or what is called social relations of production. Nor are the political minion of the bourgeoisie ignorant. The more astute are fully aware that wealth is being generated on a massive planet wide basis outside the production of surplus value, unless one thinks the new non-banking financial architecture is some mirage or bad joke fit for a Hollywood screen play. Ain’t no value being created by this new financial architecture brother. This is not to say the productive capital exists in isolation with zero connection in the sea of modern finance. Show me the surplus value. Aaaahhhhhh the money form of wealth is wealth even when there is no surplus value embodied in it. It is wealth, or rather the social power attached to wealth. Remember when an asset was brick and mortar and a labor force rather than a mathematical equation about a "package of potential" that has a potential to return "X" amount of cash flow based on a generalized presumption of default and the value of default if it is insured by some third and fourth mutherfucker? What happened to those good ole day when one went on strike for better wages and conditions and ran the risk of getting the crap kicked out of you by company goons and the police? You remember those day of civil rights and euphoric feelings of emancipation and completing Lincoln’s vision based on proletarian insurgency. You wake up one morning and some clever fellows have combined four chemical in a bottle and enacted a scenario that causes the chemical to pass the threshold - leap, to organic life. The capitalist crying like a mutchfuckers screaming "how do I suppose to make a profit under these conditions?" The proletarians wondering if this new organic life form taste like chicken if you stir fry it and put hot sauce and those eleven secret species, or rather spices on it. "Do that come with biscuits and gravy and a side of mash potatoes." We are undergoing the evolutionary/revolutionary leap to a new mode of production based on the revolutionary leap in the means of production and the battle is over the new forms of wealth in society. The bourgeoisie seeks a form of wealth that preserves its rule as ruling class. These mutherfuckers - a section of the ruling class made manifest in intelligence and the state, will jettison bourgeois property and the wage labor form (commodity form) like a bad habit to preserve themselves as rulers. And I’m stuck trying to figure out some old trade union crap at ground zero. I freaking hate this. Right when you start to get a handle on things, that means it has changed. Yea, yea, yea . . . The first visible phase of a process is its second stage. Or you could not see it. Yea . . . I know. When the Dalai Lama goes over to Marxism or what is the same, a materialist conception of revolution in the mode of production, and speaks of the need for new social relations of production - in his laid back Buddhist manner, it is time to reboot revolutionary Marxism. Something has changed profoundly. WL. ________________________________________________ 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
