Submitted by d4rk in Marxism101 (edited )

When dealing with the First International's split, it basically disintegrated after the Paris Commune. I acknowledge that Marx has recanted this opinion although I think, sifting through Marx's original assertions, you could create a clear picture of the events that he wanted to occur.

Before writing, I would like to say this is the second part to my article on the Social object which details what the social object is and my assumptions about it. Also, despite popular belief, spontaneous violent revolution by the workers is exactly what Marx and his Section were totally against the idea being it would just be an outpouring of emotions and sentiments that could easily be co-opted by the Capitalist state.

  1. the synthesis of the Social object:

When the Social Object is synthesized, as attempted by multiple ironic figures like Mikhail Bakunin, Stafford Beer, Kevin McCoy, and Vitalik Buterin. It would be traded for as itself without the need for intermediary commodities like money and solves ECP simply because it has inherent value rather than Market TV, Resource TV, or Labour TV. What it does is inflate the economy with ghost money, money that only exists within the inherent value of the social object, you could not cut it up or value it at a different price, it is constant despite the market, this breaks down national financial institutions and even whole nations itself when it is known.

  1. the seizing of the means of production

The social object would create the conditions for a Reaganite revolution, that being workers being unknowably wealthy enough to do hostile takeovers of their own companies or corporations, aka becoming rich enough to seize the means of production. When this is done, the workers become privileged, whereas Capitalists still need to accumulate, the social object has inherent value meaning it can't degrade by market forces or simply not acknowledging it. This Privilege of the Working-class over the Capitalists, having seized the means of production, would lead us to:

  1. the dictatorship of the proletariat

Marx argued that the dictatorship of the proletariat is a liberal democracy. That being multiple parties, debates, et al. the main difference is that economic policy has shifted towards bailouts, stimulus, &c. catered to these newly wealthy and powerful Unions, Councils, Collectives, & Corporations. But as the Workers have become the majority, they have taken a somewhat libertarian right-wing or Austrian idea of economics and push for lower taxes and minimal government, except successfully, ultimately turning government redundant.

  1. lower phase communism (the state ends here)

The Social(object)-ist economics have spread worldwide and the same process as steps 1-3 have destroyed countries, churches, capitalist institutions, and all manner of oppression. Now, this is where I'm going to speculate because this is where Marx and Bakunin end their descriptions, that being labour vouchers abolishing the economic glass ceiling, in between this and higher phase communism is completely blank.

What it does now, in my opinion, is centralizing the markets with the Social Object being traded. In this stage, common commodities and property are subject to the social object and Capital (stocks, deeds, bonds, interest, futures contracts, &c.) will slowly fade away and with it, the agency tasked to give these charters, the state. This will cause even more chaos than before within the higher echelons. Finally, all these institutions, that during steps 1-4 have simply been repurposed, will be deterritorialized and made redundant. Ending in...

  1. higher phase communism

Higher phase Communism is the classless, stateless, moneyless society without State, Church, Capital, and all oppressive entities. They have been swept away by Socialism, those being contradictory to the Social Object was terminated. Now everyone gives from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

In this timeline, there would have been less bloodshed and revolution but I made a meme of this already so yes.

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