The Interrelated Imperatives and “Logic” of Capitalism (J. Craven;2011)

Effective Competition

Realization of Max Possible Surplus Value

Accumulation of Capital

Maximization of

Productivity

Production of Max Possible Surplus Value

Core Social Outcomes and Imperatives of Capitalism

Capitalism “Money to

acquire power; power to protect money” (slogan

of Medicis)

Commodification

Exploitation

Oligarchic Rule

Expansion

5 Fundamental Forms and Threats of Competition Under Capitalism

IMMEDIATE RIVALRY OF

COMPETITORS

COMPETITION AND THREATS

OF NEW ENTRANTS

MARKET AND BARGAINING POWER OF

OUTPUT BUYERS

COMPETITION AND THREATS

OF NEW SUBSTITUTES

MARKET AND BARGAINING POWER OF

INPUT SELLERS

The Imperatives and “Logic” of the Capitalist “News” Media

ACCESS

SCOOP

EXPOSURERATINGS

CELEBRITY, SURPLUS

VALUE POWER

Imperatives and Logic of Petit-Bourgeois Academia

ACCESS

GRANTS ,TITLE TENURE,COMMITTEES

EXPOSURE AND INSTITUTIONAL

SUPPORT

PUBLICATIONS PROMOTIONS COURSELOADS

CELEBRITY, NETWORKING, CONFERENCES,

CONSULTING, MEDIA

IMPERATIVES AND LOGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA

ACCESS

BIG HIT

EXPOSUREPROMOTION,

PATRONS, CONNECTIONS

CELEBRITY, NETWORKS,

RATINGS

EARTH SPHERES

EARTH

ATMOSPHERE

BIOSPHERE

LITHOSPHERE

HYDROSPHERE

DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL FORMATIONS

SOCIAL FORMATION (& interacting

modes of production)

SOCIAL-CULTURAL

ECONOMIC

HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHIC

POLITICAL-LEGAL

Macro and Micro Imperatives and Implications All Social Formations

Core Outcomes at

Micro and Macro levels

PRODUCTION

DISTRIBUTION

CONSUMPTION

RESOURCE AND SYSTEM

MAINTENANCE AND

REPRODUCTION

Core Interdependent Macro and Micro Goals of Social Formations

CONSTRUCTS OF AND SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDARD OF

LIVING

CONSTRUCTS OF AND SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURITY AND

STABILITY

CONSTRUCTS OF AND SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENTS

IN SUSTAINABILITY

CONSTRUCTS OF AND SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENTS

IN PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE

LIBERTY

Fundamental and Interdependent Questions of all Social Formations

WHAT?(to produce and

distribute)

WHY? (underlying motives or

imperatives)

HOW?( True –private and

social costs and benefits -- on and

for whom? ; Where? When?)

FOR WHOM? (who gets what levels and shares of incomes,

wealth, commodities, subsistence)

SUSTAINABILITY? (What is the true nature and thus

future of this system?)

Dimensions of Modes of Production

Mode of Production

Superstructure (Political-legal; Socio-

Cultural)

Broader Social Formation and

elements of other modes of production

contexts)

Economic Base 1. Forces of Production;

2. Relations of Production;

3. Technology

Historical-Geographical

Contexts, constraints, legacies)

Mechanisms Governing Resource Allocations in Social Formations

Mechanisms of Resource Allocations

Command

Market

Instinct

Tradition

Quigley’s Cycle—Ages and Stages—of The Rise and Fall of Empires (NEXT?)

1. STAGE OF GESTATION

(INVASIONS MIXTURES)

1. AGE OF EXPANSION (4 core

processes)

2. AGE OF CONFLICT AND CRISES

(widening and deepening

contradictions at critical levels)

3. AGE OF UNIVERSAL EMPIRE

(expanded reproduction of shares of global

markets, influence, power, resources)

2. STAGE OF DECLINE

3. STAGE OF INVASIONS

Core Processes of the Stage of Mixtures-Gestation in Quigley’s Model

Increasing Inflows/mixtures

of Populations and Increasingly Diverse Cultures

Widening and Deepening

Contradictions New vs

Indigenous Populations

Increasing Pressures on

Existing Culture, Institutions and Class Structure

Widening and Deepening

External Influences on

Domestic Institutions

Domestic Cultural and other

Institutions increasingly transformed

Core Processes of Quigley’s Stage of Decline in his Cycle of Empires

Increasing Global Integration;

Decreasing National Economy,

Sovereignty and Global Power

Widening and Deepening

Inequalities, Contradictions and Resistance at Home

and Abroad

Widening and Deepening Empire

Reactive Power and Projections

Widening and Deepening Fiscal Crises and Empire

Overreach

Widening and Deepening Vacuums

and Spheres of Influence of Competitors

4 Core Processes of Quigley’s Age of Expansion within the Cycle of Empires

1. Production (Subsistence

and Surpluses)

2. Technology and Science

Invention and Innovation

3. Population expansion

and longevity

1+2+3 Integrated

4

4. Expanding Geographical

Space

Core Processes of Quigley’s Age of Conflict of his Cycle of Empire

DECLINING RATE OF EXPANSION

INCEREASING TENSIONS AND

CLASS CONFLICTS

INCREASING AND INCREASINGLY

VIOLENT IMPERIALIST

WARS

INCREASING “END TIMES”

CULTS, OCCULTISM,

RESTRUCTURING SOCIAL

STRUCTURES OF ACCUMULATION

Core Processes of Quigley’s Age of Universal Empire of his Cycle of Empire

DECREASES IN DE FACTO AND DE JURE

INPENDENDENT POLITICAL ENTITES

INCREASING SPATIAL CONCENTRATION OF

CORE OF EMPIRE POWER OVER

PERIPHERY AND SEMI-PERIPHERY

WIDENING AND DEEPENING

CONTRADICTIONS: CORE VS PERIPHERY &

SEMI-PERIPHERY

WIDENING AND DEEPENING

PROJECTIONS , INTERDEPENDENCIES AND OVERREACH OF

EMPIRE POWER

WIDENING, DEEPENING AND

INCREASINGLY DIVERSE FORMS OF

RESISTANCE TO EMPIRE PROJECTIONS

Quigley’s Critical Determinants of History and Empires ( MISSING?)

Human History

and Empire

Technology (state of

knowledge)

Expansion of Geographic

Space

Production and Distribution(economic surplus and

uses )

Population Growth

Fundamental Processes of Markets

CommodificationDifferentiation

Homogenization

Price Determination Signaling

Information systemsWhat?

Resource allocationHow? Where? When?

Distributions of wealth and incomesRationingFor Whom?

Generating and clearing market shortages and

surpluses

Fundamental Outcomes of Markets

Competition

Politico-Economic

Concentration

Politico-Economic

Centralization

Increasing National-Global Integration

and Interdependence

Widening and Deepening Potential Rewards and Losses

Defining Features of Capitalism

Capitalism

Generalized Commodity Production

State and SSA supporting institutions

Wage-labor

Private Property

Four Dimensions of Indigenous Nations

Indigenous Nation

Four Forms of Balance (Micro and Macro)

Forms of Balance

Spiritual

IntellectualPhysical

Emotional

FOUR SOCIAL-CLASS-BASED MODES OF PRODUCTION (PAST and PRESENT)

Modes of Production( Who are the rulers?Who are the ruled? )

SOCIALISM

SLAVERYFEUDALISM

CAPITALISM

Four Types of Structured Social Relations Under Capitalist SSAs

Capitalist SSA(dynamic

constellations of institutions)

State-/vs

Social Formation

Capital -/vs

Labor

Capital-/vs

Capital

Labor-/vs

Labor

Four SSAs (Ages and Stages) of U.S. Monopoly Capitalism

Four SSAs/Stages of U.S. Capitalism

Transnational Capitalism(1990s -)

Competitive Capitalism

(1850s to 1900 approx)

Corporate (Robber Baron) Capitalism(1870s to 1940)

Regulated Capitalism

(1940 – 1990s)

Four Core Dimensions of A Social Formation

Social Formation (defined by dominant mode of production)

Dominant and Defining Mode of Production (structured intra and

inter-relations and contradictions of, within,

between, modes of production)

Global Social Formations and their modes of

production (Structured contradictions and relations

of dominance)

Historical-Geographic (contexts, contradictions ,

levels of development, constraints)

Multiple non-Dominant Modes of Production

(structured intra-relations and contradictions of

dominance)

Four Forms of Scarcity

ScarcityNatural

RelativeContrivedSystemic

Absolute

Forms and Dimensions of Allocative Efficiency in Neoclassical Theory

Economic( min. total

costs)

Technical(max

output/input)

Consumer(MUx/Px = Muy/Py)

Exchange(P= MSC = MSB)

Productive (More of Qx

less of Qy)

Realms of Competition and Conflict

CyberLand

AirSpace

Sea

U.S. “COIN” DOCTRINE

Clear Area

Hold Area

Secure Area

Build Area and Local

Replacements

Hard and Soft Power

Projections

Mainstream View of Stages—Roles—of Induction

data

patterns

correlations

functions

hypotheses

Hypothesis

testing

Verification and

nullification

General principles, facts and

assumptions

DeductionA=BB=CA=C

Hypothesis Theory

Construction and

Refinement

Imperial Social Systems Engineering Campaigns

Covert Provocations (political, economic,

cultural, geographical)

Political, Economic, Social Destabilization

of target regime

Private & Public Reactions of Targeted Social Formations to

Provocations

Denials by U.S. Increased pressure to

isolate and embargo targeted regime

Increased public propaganda and

military attacks against targeted regime

3 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OR FRONTS OF U.S. COIN AND CT CAMPAIGNS

COUNTER WMD AND NETWORK PROLIFERATION

STABILITY, SECURITY, INSTITUTIONS, HR AND SELF-GOVERNANCE/DE

FENSE

DECAPITATION-DISRUPTION OF

EXISTING GLOBAL TERROR NETORKS