The Cancer Stage of Capitalism
I am currently in the process of reading a book by professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph called
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism which sets out to diagnose the global market paradigm in pathogenic terminologies which allow one to divulge into a number of sociological concerns such as value group programme in an attempt to diagnose the world global market as a cancer on the body of the life social order of societies around the world.
The issue that many here in the forum (those of freemarket advocates) may think this is a Communist propaganda book might want to indulge on what the book says about the Soviet system:
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| Quote: It may be objected that the Soviet system was not programmed by the sequence of maximizing the sum of money-value outputs over money inputs, but was nevertheless afflicted with an out-of-control technology which devastated natural environments and reduced people to detailoperations within industrial orders. Yet this objection would miss two related points. The first is that the Soviet system is no longer, and thus does not figure in the problematic we are examining. The second is that the extent to which the Soviet system was essentially a derivative and imitative order of industrial capitalism is overlooked. We might even say it was a parody order, mimicking industrial capitalism in its regulating logic prior to the latter’s mutations into money-sequences delinked from production. Consider the analogues of ruling social programme-militarized public sectors, dictatorial management of the forces of production, Taylorist production systems disaggregating every natural movement and process into lock-step phases of uniform sequences, pervasive machine-culture as a desirable order for society, and systematic devastation of the environment for ‘efficiency’ and ‘development’. Dominant expressions of the ruling paradigm of how to live had been altered, principally private proprietary title, but the most basic forms of the life-excluding social programme were not recognized or responded to. Rather, the Soviet system, as in all such competitive races, imitated the system it sought to replace the more furiously it strove to win in its terms. The common, ruling principles of industrialization, of absolute privileges and control of management over workers, of capital-output ratios as the final measure of efficiency, of aggregate GNP as society’s collective value goal, of maximally wide projection of armed-force power, and, perhaps most deeply of all, of conversion of nature into products and waste of maximizing production systems – all continued in place as more absolute than before. | |
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The book is basically predicated upon seeing the Global Market system for what it is worth, a decoupled cancer that has invaded its life-host to feed off of society like a parasitic cancer in an attempt to create money for money investors using money sequences thus making the confusion that money automatically determines and guarantees well being when in fact the opposite is the case.
I have the pdf book for those who want it without having to purchase the book, but this is a very heavy read and requires a well equipped and quick mind to keep up with what is said. The book to me is eloquently made, the issuance of philosophy, logical deductive and inductive thought/statements are hard to deny so long as one does not enter into a form of logical entrapment in a performance circular logic.
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