America has never been an exception to Marx outline of the law of social revolution. America confirms in rich detail a deeper meaning of Marx general law of social revolution. What makes Marx outline of social revolution an outline is "emergence theory." Marx captures emergence in a few words: "At a certain stage of development." "At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or - (this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms) with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated up until then. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution." (1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy) What is "a certain stage?" To answer a "certain stage is a "certain stage of growth" is no answer. One must articulate how "a certain stage is identified" II. In exploring "emergence" historical Marxism preceded based on a concept of quantitative growth of the productive forces lead to qualitative change of the productive forces. This formulation is to general. Quantitative growths of the productive forces prepare the soil for injection of a new quality - qualitatively new technology, into means of production. A certain stage is identified as the point of quantitatively injecting a new quality - qualitatively new technology, into the existing production process. A new era of social revolution opens - is called forth, based on qualitatively new means of production, rather than the quantitative growth of existing productive forces. These qualitatively new means of production brings to an end expansion of production and distribution on the old quantitative/qualitative basis, and society begins the leap - transition, to a new mode of production. This process does not and cannot happen all at one time but quantitatively, producing waves of social consequences. Qualitatively new means of production compels society to reorganize itself around the new means of production quantitatively. In the theory realm this new narrative is the dialectic of quality, rather than a revision of Marx. The social consequences of qualitative changes in the means of production demand we reorder our thinking. Our state of development of productive forces, the world economy and its division of labor defines a vision of what is possible in the 21 st century. By clarifying a deeper meaning and understanding of "at a certain stage" Marxism has been deepened, not revised. The collectives of the old Communist Labor Party and editorial board of Rally Comrades, using Nelson Perry's "Entering An Epoch of Social Revolution," have deepened Marxism with their modern explanation of the meaning of "at a certain stage." Waistline
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