What's happening is AS Marx taught us, the capitalist system he described was rife with contradictions and couldn't last long. Not long after his death across much of the world the capitalist class was overthrown and in much of the rest, constrained by workers' power

The bourgeoisie with ruthless violence and cunning, from its 20thc home base the US, mounted a successful counterrevolution But the TENDENCY of the rate or profit in the exploitation of wage workers in commodity production eventually resulted in an _actual concrete falling rate_

So that the most powerful ruling class players innovatr to ESCAPE this contradiction and accumulate In ANOTHER WAY. This new way was very cleverly constructed, thanks to COMPUTING POWER and the development of myriad social sciences of ABSTRACTION & social engineering.

The transition to the New Mode of Production proceeded first by Global FINANCIALIIZATION and the WAGERIZATION of capital (Deterritorialization). Before long the COMMANDING HEIGHTS of the world economy had been tranformed into a new mode of production and accumulation. The

REALLY NEW things in this transition,distinguishing it from all others -- and there are really new aspects -- include the centrally directed and heavily conspiratorial nature of the transition and the Innovation of USE VALUES as well as means and relations of production

I'm going to explain this last part, this last contention here, at length. this is I realize NOT SIMPLE. this is COMPLEX. the continuity and the aims here, class war, is simple and obvious. the way they accomplished the transition thru financialization is a bit tricky.

The Spectacle is a very complex thing really. so just as a preamble here's the thing: in the transition from feudal Mode of Production to capitalist Mode of Production, and the coming to dominance of the latter -- for they coexist over centuries -- what you see is the means of

Production (which include labour and labour skills, e.g. literacy) and the relations of production changing on the production of the same stuff, and the stuff developing and diversifying according to a complex and quasi independent process continuous with feudal MoP: wheat rice

Shoes ships olive products wool vehicles brides workers books etc.. In this last transition out of capitalism a NEW USE VALUE, or new use values but all related and made of the same fundamental thing, was a major level for the transition of the RELATIONS of production.

This is the NEW USE VALUE that puzzles people and that thrown up the critical work on "looking labor." It's the Spectacle itself. "Fame." the Attention of the species and every old use value mixed with that attention. It is produced by THE CONCRETE TELECOM GRID: the satellites,

The data storage sites, the fiberglass the wifi the cell towers. This is NEW. There are people who will always find the continuity of new things and the concrete history of new things as an excuse to say nah nah everything is the same we are still cave men the cave paintings are

Are spectacle we have had eyes and ears all along etc. And every historical phenomenon's true explanation is the ancient lizards brain of the infant . No doubt there is an evopsych explanation to for the comfort of those incantations. But The Spectacle is a new new old new

Real Thing on earth, a thing of tremendous power and novelty in our species, and it is the lever and machinr with which the new mode of production and social relations now established at the commanding heights of the economy is made . .

and it's a big hunk of hardware like an enormous prison

But it makes something really new. You are consuming and producing the new use value right now and so am I. And we will explain how it is the lever of enclosure to transform social relations from capitalism which builds socialism inside itself to a new slave order

Always attempted but never before possible. While communism remains in some sense a tiny step away -- production and distribution of consumer goods is all set up -- but a step that is harder than ever before.

First you have to reject again this resurgent patriarchal medievalism of mind/body that the fake lefts and alt rights were together reviving . These terms are misnormers for certain _capacities for praxis_ and _social relations_ of our species.

Everybody following?

Should I do this on a platform where I'm talking and take questions.

Ok now very early on in capitalist hegemony political economists - physiocrat and classical -- were frustrated they couldn't own the air, but this of course appeared ideologically as the puzzle of why the air , which was so useful and necessary, "has no value."

So in the market arrangements of production and distribution with labor power sold by laborers as a commodity,how could you give air value. There are three ways , separate or combined :

Because as Marx reprimanded Lassalle , the _sine qua non_ of Value in capitalist social relations is enclosure in private property You could find a way to pull air out of the atmosphere and store it in a private warehouse.

You could figure out how to make air in a private factory and sell it, say in tanks. You could seal up everyone in a vaccuum or lock everyone's airways in a mask and sell the opening of an airhole. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_an_Air_Pump_by_Joseph_Wright_of_Derby,_1768.jpg…

Playing Monopoly used to be a way little kids learned elementary lessons about class, property and power. So capitalists gnashed their teeth from the start about not being able to own the air, which they described as the air "having no Value." And that's a statement that

gives just about as clear a picture of the specificity of Value in capitalism as can be , because of course they soon grasp that air does have Value but it eludes capture. and this is the beginning of the ruling class _really thinking_ toward their perennial Utopia which was

described by Plato in Republic and persists with some modifications as the ruling class guiding fantasy up to today. Why even in the dawn of the bourgeois age, when there is so much to conquer,so many huge fortunes to be made, are the ruling class ideologues of capitalism so

vexed about Value and his puzzle of the air? Because obviously it's the brass ring because Value is nothing but class mastery. it is not out there in the world of things but in the power of the Master over the Slave. Power to withhold air is the _Infinite Value_, IF MONOPOLIZED

So I want to fast forward now so you can see this very clearly. Crytopcurrency by blockchain and the abolition of paper money and coins is a programme of DEFINANCIALIZATION It takes the convertible claim that is Capital per se and RETERRITORIALIZES it into a Master/Slave relation

Not just that the "nudges" in the personalized money in the personalized ewallet actually individually alter the exchange value -market power -- of the chits, but this is a lever of transformation. This: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_an_Air_Pump_by_Joseph_Wright_of_Derby,_1768.jpg…

(Again I anticipate the paleofantasists saying but wages = rewards for obedience always from time immemorial. Well no and yesa: class power is the long durée reality. And what we are interested in is the historical development of this power and its abolition thru struggle.)

The sex worker discourse is also ideological preparation here in the way it refuses to recognize human dignity, deploys an adolescent snark essentialism about power (any power &all power are equal as the 1 of power vs 0 of it's absence ), &that personal servitude is degrading.

The Commanding Heights of the Economy have ALREADY TRANSFORMED. FINANCE and SPECTACLE MEDIA are the zenith of the commanding heights The commanding heights even of COMMODITY PRODUCTION are in mid mutation Listen to stating the obvious PIC MIC PHIC https://soundcloud.com/alphonse-van-worden/stating-the-obvious-pid-mid-phid…

Listen to stating the obvious PIC MIC PHIC by Alphonse Van Worden on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/alphonse-van-worden/stating-the-obvious-pid-mid-phid…

Revenue. There was a fantasy circulating back in the beginning around 2006 when the infrastructure was finally in place for broad deployment of streaming and tv service mobility that the new Internet Emperor companies would find a new business model that could make them

Really profitablr (new model beyond ass or subscriptions, with supplementary data sales). Of course there was no such revelation coming. instead the magic thinking began. These companies are not profitable as enterprises. Amazon hemorrhaged money for decades. They accumulate

power/value nonetheless through the financial markets . It's not the unremunerated looking labour (that labour is remunerated with service). It's not data sales (no retail market to speak of) tho there is some (there is direct State contacting of varies services including dats)

It's NEW. this media is a NEW arm of finance in fact. FINANCE (with sub categories infludibg bit precisely Real Estate industry but the Real Estate Bubble as an financial industry) was the first transformation _OUT of capitalism_ (even Marx already was discussing it in vol 3)

and digital telecom media is the manner in which this transformation will enact the real subsumption of the whole of social reproduction. Financialization (Deterritorialization) followed by DE-Financialization (reterritorialization) . And Beller was a but vague but correct to

Refer to this process as involving Wall Streets use if the dispossessed as "a writing surface." Meaning in the literal sense you can send ISIS to make people poor in Syrian. You write up the data of this. An investment bank abstracts the profits and securitizes it in ten ways

Realize the _future_ expropriations (slaves, natural resources) the violence makes available, in the present, as fictitious capital (and better yet this is sold to institutional investors, mutual and pensions funds).

Ok backup now again. I want to look at The Merchant of Venice for our heuristic. This is a play with a message, and the message is: To Have An Empire We Need A Central Bank.

Gotta get back to this but aside : Gates and class want to privatize sunlight So block people from sunlight -- alienate it -- with a wall of schmutz in the atmosphere, then SELL people artificial or otherwise enclosed and diverted sunlight , that's not as good sold as safer

You force your slaves you have dispossessed of tne earth [inherited dispossesion of and reproduce daily] to build the wall of schmutz that lets you steal sunlight from them, and the apparatus above it to enclose it and dole it out at your whim