Heidegger

IF YOU ROLL A SILVER THALER DOWN UPON THE GROUND
IT’LL ROLL, ROLL, ROLL – BECAUSE ITS ROUND, ROUND, ROUND.

01/10/2008 _gottlos752004 at yahoo.com_ (mailto:gottlos752004@yahoo.com)
writes:

Dear Jud,
To reiterate, I need a serious discussion relating to Marxist economics
which I would think is highly pertinent to analytical indicant theory. First of
all, when the USSR collapsed – and thinking about that with the little that I
really know, it does seem suspicious to me now that what the so-called
Communists did, was something similar to what Bush and company did without,
however, the necessary forces the Communists had to work with and against.

Dear Gary:
I will try to be as serious as I can when writing about politics. As you
know I consider myself *burnt out* as a politician. The only way I know to
stave off ennui when thinking about my communist past is to joke about it - a
defence mechanism? Who knows. I must say I never thought I would see the day
when I would attack the Labour Theory of Value - but I do in this piece, which
I regret to say is a very cynical piece of work beneath all the fun.
Although I was a Marxist in my early twenties and travelled to the Soviet Union many
times, I was in fact a Trotskyist and not a Stalinist. That does not mean
of course that I was any the less of a Marxist than a Stalinist, or that my
interpretation of Marxist economics was any different to those of the form of
State Capitalist Economics of the Soviet Empire. Nor does it mean that I can
be considered an expert on Marxism, the Soviet Union or economics.
As a general introduction to what I am about to write, I want to make it
clear that the Marxist (communist) addiction to reification was just as all
devouring as any run-of-the-mill capitalist trannie (or indeed Fascist) and it
might be worth me making clear a point for others, that AIT list members like
you already know.

The term ‘transcendentalist* or *trannie* for short, not only applies to
people who have a faith in God, devils, invisible beings, mind, soul,
consciousness, being, love, etc., but is just as applicable to communists, atheists
and fascists, as it is to any timid little vicar whose home parish is that
of the tiny community of the fictional village of *Much Binding in the
Marsh* of the much beloved radio comedy show in the immediate post war period in
England.

Reificative-rhinoscleroma is a global epidemic which strikes suddenly at
victims from all walks of life, both rich and poor and is no respecter of
class, political persuasion, country or race. It is transmitted by a
particularly vicious form of fetishistic greed virus which merges symbiotically with the
victims brain meat. and somehow the pathogens gain sustenance from the
chemicals in the ink with which bank-notes are printed. The larger the printed
domination, the greater the amount of ink and the more virulent the strain..
Some claim it has genetic as well as societal propagative features.

Reificative-rhinoscleroma is characterised as a chronic disease of the upper
airways, commonly affecting the nasal cavity, by which the pathogens find
their way to the brain via the epithelial olfactory receptor pathways. It then
develops into a serious neurological affliction in which the natural
concentration on real entities is diverted towards imagined, non-physical,
intangible fictions.

For those in the finance and banking industry the first symptoms are the
inability to smell a rat, but it may manifest itself in others by a sudden
belief in God etc. For Marxists there is a fulminant exophthalmos or protrusion
of the eyeballs from the sockets triggered by reading the labour theory of
value, which, although it was first promulgated by the British economist David
Ricardo, was utilised by Marx to characterise the sinister social mechanisms
and dark satanic mills of the capitalist economic system, in which the
value of the workers’ output is appropriated by the capitalists, who, driven by
greed for money and power, surreptitiously don black stockings and suspenders
and use cash generated by the sale of the products of the labourers’ toil
to generate more wealth, the actuator for money-growth being provided by
surplus value stolen from the working class.

Marx claimed that the products exchanged in the marketplace have a “use value
” that is intrinsic, which meant that Marxist reificata where accommodated
within the very corporeality of the claw-hammer or the material of the velvet
waistcoat. Value abstractively absorbed and osmotically seeping into the very
fabric of that which exists? Quality (positive or negative) that renders
something desirable or valuable, suckled and soaked into the plump bosom of
Mother Nature? All very cosy for the dialectical materialist, but c’mon, are
those values REALLY an internal feature of the inanimate objects we wonder?
Do they remain there if caste over the harbour wall to sink out of human ken
below the waves? Do those *intrinsic values” remain when human tastes in
claw hammers and velvet waistcoats change or are left in the lunar dust when the
astronauts leave for home? Of COURSE they don’t!

The attribution of value is a feature of the neurological modality of the
human hammerer or human clothes-horse – not the inanimate objects themselves.
Marx was Mr. Personification made Flesh (a form of reverse or negative
reification) the Marxist theory of Value is utter ontological nonsense – it
simply does not exist – what exists are the OBJECTS of the workers’ output –
the claw-hammer and the velvet waistcoat – it is THEY which are appropriated
by the capitalists or the communists bureaucrats alike and bought by
purchasers existing in a mode of desiring them for their own purposes. There are
no such things as markets in the ontological sense. Sure there exist
shopkeepers products, stalls, shopping malls, counters and tills and all the ontic
paraphernalia of the wholesale and retail outlet, but the ontological
marketplace is but a fiction – it is the desirers of commodities who exist in a mode
of deciding how many casino-tokens they are willing to release to get their
hands on a claw-hammer compared to the other place of exchange further down
the road.

As Doctor Eldred prudently wrote recently,

*Markets have no substance, no standing presence, but are a nothing of
mutual reflection.*
[2] (Eldred. 2008)

Of course I would not go over the top as he did, needlessly prizing the
long-buried Platonic heteron *nothing* out of its abandoned Athenic midden –
but I’ll let that one go by for now.

Although the labour theory of value originated with British economist David
Ricardo, Marx seized it as an economic point of departure for exposing the
tyrannical, exploitive nature of the capitalist economic system.

Of course all of these Marxist terms are exactly the same category of
reifications used by the capitalists to manipulate and dominate the workers. The
only thing is that the men in top hats adjust the terminology to suit their
agenda. Marxist *surplus value* becomes *reasonable profit,* and *use value*
becomes *marketability* or in the case of motor cars: *kerbside appeal.*

When the Soviet Union was established as *a workers democracy,* the
capitalists role was assumed by the communist party bosses on behalf of themselves
and a reified-deified *Workers State* and they simply tweaked the reificata to
suit the new circumstances.

The oppressed and hapless, near-powerless working class, ignorant of the
fact that, the subliminal trannie tool employed by their former bosses has been
turned against them workers continued tradition of “fetishism,” as if they
had never given up. Of course the new communist bosses came up with a
spanking brand new reification to fit the bill: *delayed satisfaction* or however
the notion was formulated in Russia.

Curb your lusting and fetishing after consumer goods!*

the loud-speakers roared –

*Establish the infrastructure, build the bridges, cut the canals!*

*You are mistaking of “want” for “need” comrades!
Electrification before Emeralds!
Railways before Rolls Royce’s!
Underground’s before Underclothes!

Economically the fledgling state had strange bedfellows.

*Today the large banking and financial business of the Catholic Church is an
extensive system interlocked with the Rothschilds and the rest of the
International Banking system. Viz. the Vatican’s Bank of America in the United
States which recently acquired the Wall Street investment giant Merrill Lynch.
The great wealth of the Russian Czars was entrusted at that time to the
Rothschilds, $35 million with the Rothschild’s Bank of England, and $80 million in
the Rothschild’s Paris bank. The Rothschilds then financed the Russian
Revolution which confiscated those fortunes plus vast portions of the Orthodox
Church’s wealth. They were able to prevent (due to their power) the legitimate
heirs of the Czars fortune to withdraw a penny of the then mere millions
deposited in a variety of their banks. The Mountbattans, who are related to the
Rothschilds, led the court battles to prevent the claimants from withdrawing any
of the fortune. In other words, the money they invested in the Russian
Revolution, was not only paid back directly by the Bolshevists in millions of
dollar of gold, but by grabbing the huge deposits of the Czars’ wealth, the
Rothschilds gained what has now grown (been ‘leveraged’) into tens of Trillions.*1]
(Meier. 2008)

Jud again:
Normally a considerable amount of effort on behalf of the will is required
to believe in the existence of invisibles, such as God or the fictive
promises of politicians etc., for in both cases no evidence is available to
substantiate such claims, and in both cases if there WAS evidence – there would be
no need to have any faith in the first place.:-) (I thank Voltaire for that
thought)

The Soviet Stakhanovites excelled themselves and railways snake out across
the empire like the lashes of a Gulag whip.

Trannies are those who elevate concepts like God, actions like movement,
grammatical terms like gerunds, abstract nouns (both verbal and adjectival) or
any dualistically generated ideation into a sham-object, a pseudo-entity,
which lacks any physical dimension and does not occupy a certain location. So,
like all of the usefully fictional entities in the domain of number, so too
all of the terms of economics are also non-existent useful fictions, apart
from that is, terms which refer to the denotatum of words like Gary’s Silver
Thaler, the new drinks dispenser outside of the Accounts Department, the
chairman’s secretary, the Credit Manager of the Hong Kong branch etc.

All the rest of the terminology - The Coca Cola Account, letters of credit,
debt bundles, bills, investments, shares, futures, debit, probabilities,
mortgages, stocks, bonds, hot issue, watered stock, blue-chips, profit, loss,
labour, institutions, value, worth, discounts, sales, employment, unemployment,
full employment, strikes, insurance, guarantees, incentives, data.

Information is pure, unadulterated reification which does not exist in this
world or any other. The whole financial system is predicated on their being
enough punters around who believe that IT DOES. It is only in times of
financial crisis that even the most mentally challenged members of the
transcendenista suddenly realise with a jolt THAT IT DOESN’T and that the whole house of
cards is actually an imagined incredibly interlaced reificative reticule of
non-existent ideation, and that they are a part of it and that they and their
neigbours and workmates are in fact the very trustors who have entrusted
their gambling chips to the non-existent institutions, which are guaranteed by
the state gambling casino, in order that they may be withdrawn and exchanged
for food and other material requirements.

What is that you say? *it is all a matter of the financial institutions
you trust.* But *trust* and *institutions* and *banks* don’t exist either, only
the trustor which is a human person who creates a trust - called by banks
*savings’ accounts,* (though there are many different forms of such fictions)
by giving real or personal property, (i.e., cash in the form of metal coins
or paper money, which are in themselves no more than gambling chips which
the State Casino (The Bank of America or the Bank of England) guarantee may be
cashed in at shops and other places to hand over in exchange for goods i.e.,
real objects.) in trust to a trustee or only the trustee to whom legal
title to property is entrusted to use for another’s benefit.

End of Part One.

More soon and thanks Gary
Regards,

Jud.
[1] Meier. Fritz S. Environment1 · 29 Sept 2008 The International
Environmental Forum. Yahoo.
[2] Eldred. Michael. Heidegger Discussion List. 30.09.2008.

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