Marx on the Peasantry: Class in Itself or Class in Struggle? Claudio J. Katz

 Yes thanks - I'm now reading the scholarly article, "Marx on the Peasantry: Class in Itself or Class in Struggle? Claudio J. Katz" So Marx argued that the peasants were a temporary bridge to the revolutionary bourgeois against the aristocrats since eventually the capitalist usury loans would take over the peasant land, wiping out and concentrating land ownership. 

 "The triumph of capitalism put an end to the peasants' contribution to
the development of modern human beings as well. Capitalism's
civilizing influence, Marx argues, consists in its conquest of nature
and the development of universal human intercourse.41Peasant
production is both isolated and subject to the rhythms of nature.
Hence two of the terms Marx uses to define the peasants' cultural
horizons - barbarism and idiocy. These terms are not, or not primarily, insults, evidence of Marx's irrational hostility toward peas-
ants. Rather, they have a narrower meaning, derived from their
classical Greek roots, referring to individuals isolated from the
main currents of civilization.42
Capitalist rule proved disastrous not only for the peasants' conditions of existence,but also for their ability to respond to their
predicament.

What Economics Professor Michael E. Hudson emphasizes about Marx is that almost ALL Marxists do not study the final work of Marx on the rentier class. So Hudson's big emphasis is that the "Rentier" class is parasitical - meaning the financialization of the economy does not produce any real goods and now the financialization is now around 40% of the economy if not worse. This is the FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate).

So Michael E. Hudson just finished his latest book called Jubilee - or on that subject - arguing that the original empire-states of West Asia relied on the Jubilee to cancel all financial usury debts of the farmers every seven years and that Christianity originally was the teaching to reinstate the Jubilee. The Roman Empire got rid of the Jubilee and the Greek ten-based number currency system then was based on the fake "democracy" of logarithmic math with the inverse exponential function as the growth system. 

 

Marx is using that same exponential function math for his "supply and demand" model analysis that is just classical economics - only he includes the "surplus value of labor" as an externality.

In fact beyond just the financialization of the rentiers - what not just Marx but ALL the classical economists argued for - taxing the property owners more - is actually the greater cost of the environmental damage to the land from deforestation, etc.

 

so in Europe the Church and the Royals traditionally kept large tract of forests and then the banking system developed as the royals needed to loan money to hire mercenaries to expand the royal land holdings.

 

So it is the military technology that grew out of the Carolingian Empire that Professor David F. Noble traces back to the 9th Century in his book, "The Religion of Technology" wherein he points out that Marx preached the "edenic respites" of technology.

 

In other words Marxism essentially argues for a Technocracy whereby some increasing productivity of technology will have the profits passed on to the workers or society as a whole. But again this ignores the huge environmental costs of so-called technology (which in fact is just an extension of this same wrong math from the exponential function and the symmetric logic of algebraic geometry).

For example see the book, "Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry" by Math Professor Ian Stewart - he goes over the whole history of math based on the idea of symmetry. It's not quite accurate but it's good propaganda for what the standard science view is. For example he points out that quantum mechanics relies on the Poisson Bracket to convert the asymmetric or noncommutative time-frequency resonance back into symmetric mathematics.

 

But the Poisson Bracket, introduced by Dirac, is not the truth of quantum mechanics as Fields Medal Math Professor Alain Connes points out. So the mass mind control of the symmetric math is deep indeed and Marx himself was a victim of this Platonic symmetric math error. 

 If you check out the latest "Radical Anthropology" talks on vimeo - they are having a new book published based on the well-documented research that our original human culture developed human language out of originally the women singing all night while in the forest - the polyphonic singing scares away the predators by creating the illusion of a larger unified animal so to speak. I was even taught this when I lived in Alaska in the wilderness - my "boss" who homestead the place said to ALWAYS call out "Hey Bear!" when in the woods - constantly. there were bear tracks everywhere so I did as he said and rarely went into the woods. 

My buddy from high school whom I lost contact with - I discovered he went hiking out west and got ahead of his group thinking he's "get there first." He was NOT making any sound and next thing he was in the jaws of a Grizzly - off the ground. A mom saw him first - with her cubs nearby. Strangely humans lack smell to activate reproduction so that we have evolved to work in close social groups without our smells triggering sex. 

There is a good book on this I read - free online - forgot the title. The blood magnetized animals of course is HOW the males attract the animals they are hunting. That's why the males avoid the females for three days before they go hunting so that their neurohormones get ionized and this "yang qi" then sends out yin qi that attracts the animals just as the same energy attracts the females (the yin qi being "yang jing" or ionized neurohormone energy created from the ionized blood). So there is a good anthropology book on this by Dr. Megan Beisele called, "Women Like Meat."

  proof in science is a mathematics term. I've corresponded with Chomsky about noncommutative math and he said he would study it as the origin of human language, if he had the time. If you study Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes on the proof of noncommutativity he points out that Heisenberg discovered noncommutativity is not replicated! It is new every measurement. So it's a new way of thinking and a new way of being. In fact our ancient original human culture knew this truth from music and music theory as Alain Connes points out in his lecture, "Music of Shapes" that he first recorded the notes for in 1997 and first gave the public talk for in 2011 and then gave the talk repeatedly just recently again. You can find it on youtube in several different versions. What Wim Hof does is noncommutativity - that's why science doesn't understand it in the standard "algebraic geometry" symmetric logic of science. That's also why most physicists reject quantum biology since noncommutativity is not a repeatable "off the shelf" commodified technology. Yet it is the truth of reality as Alain Connes has proven. Consider the response I received from quantum mechanics Professor Basil J. Hiley (who has collaborated with David Bohm and Sir Roger Penrose among others). 

  "Dear Drew, It is difficult to comment authoritatively on Ruth’s paper as I have not had time to read it carefully. My own venture into weak values was that they provided a means of measuring transition probability amplitudes. That means they are providing a way of further exploring the quantum formalism but adding nothing fundamentally new. In this regards I agree with Ruth and the two referees. I do not know what Alain Connes was specifically talking about. However non-commutativity is deeply ingrained in quantum phenomena and is not, in my opinion, “only mathematics”. The early pioneers of QM, such as Heisenberg, Born, Jordan, Dirac and others showed this feature of non-commutativity in great detail. It was Schrödinger’s work that led to the development of a tremendously successful algorithm based on the notion of a wave function which was formalised into the bras and kets that we have got very very used to manipulating. However by identifying the wave function with the 'state of a system’ we have been left with the unsolved ‘problem', the collapse of the wave function. After one hundred years of effort we have been unable to 'solve this problem’. In the last few years I have come to the conclusion that this is unsolvable simply because it is the wrong question as it is based on treating an algorithm rather than a description of an unfolding process. That the quantum formalism was an algorithm was Bohr’s position all those years ago, but he argued that we could not go deeper by attempting to analysing the process because of the 'Principle of Complementary’. This philosophical principle seemed to have universal appeal outside of physics but now, he argued, with the advent of quantum phenomena, this principle also had a role to play in physics, so to Bohr, the principle became a universal principle that applied to all knowledge. The availability of the ‘algorithm’ which was easy to manipulate and lead to experimental verification should be contrasted with the difficulty in understanding non-commutativity, both mathematically and conceptuality. Furthermore it was very difficult to apply it physical problems. Thus the algorithm becomes the ‘only game in Town’ as we learn how to deal with its uncomfortable features. Then there follows an attempt to make the formalism in to an ontology and the result is a plague of interpretations. I have recently published two papers which address directly the challenge of providing a description of this ‘quantum unfolding’ as Dirac puts it. It is a very different approach which is based on an exploration of non-commutative geometry, in the same spirit of Alain Connes but using more physical intuition. It is a long story but I have a lecture on line at "emmy network" which may help. My lecture is Lecture 2 immediately after Roger Penrose’s lecture in the series ‘Mind and Matter’. My lecture was about 'Matter’ not ‘Mind'!  

Enjoy, Basil."

  thanks - I have chatted with Jean as I did a semester of credit in Costa Rica, Fall 1992 as a "certificate of the School for Field Studies" in "Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development" - that's when I learned of the mass extinction of species crisis in E.O. Wilson's Biodiversity of Life book that we used for a class. McFearSun recently noted that was the EARLIEST reference he could find to the mass extinction of life on Earth due to modern "civilization - that same E.O. Wilson book that had been recently published (I think it was first published in 1992).  

Currently I'm reading a book called "NEBULA" about the Mafia Gangsters that run the planet through weapons-drugs-and other scam trading. It is detailed how a certain Belgan-Costa Rican duel citizenship "mafioso" was the head of this global network (and still is) that was outed in the early 1990s - called Nebula informally. So the book details how United Fruit was exporting cocaine in the bananas.  

This is a wild corroboration of my personal experience! I had a summer job in a fruit warehouse in 1992 maybe or 1993 must have been - yes AFTER I returned. And my coworker told me how the owner of the Fruit warehouse had gotten BUSTED for importing cocaine in the bananas. I mean that was the FIRST time I had ever heard of such a thing but I had no reason to disbelief my coworker - although it was strange that he listened to Rush Limbaugh everyday and he also was African-american. I would hope he would know better. haha. But Madison WIsconsin was a small town - maybe he just wanted to fit in? Anyway so just the past couple days I get CORROBORATION of what I learned firsthand when my job was sorting tomatoes with my coworker all summer. One day we had to slaughter a room full of flies with homemade cardboard fly swatters but that's another story.  

So then... after I finished that summer job then I sent a nice letter to the owner of the Warehouse that instead of throwing out all his fruit he could donate it to Second Harvest for the people who can't afford to buy it - as a tax deduction and he will look really good for the public relations. I, of course, didn't mention I knew he had gotten busted for importing cocaine in the bananas. I heard later on that he indeed began donating his extra fruit to Second Harvest to pick up for the food shelves as a "win win" tax deduction and public relations marketing ploy. I have not finished the NeBULA book yet - it is chock full of "connections" but no references. Kind of strange but the author was some Belgian NATO Air Force intelligence officer. Pretty wild.  

Oh I forgot to mention that our Economics Professor in Costa Rica said if we really wanted to help Costa Rica's environment then we should not have even FLOWN there due to the environmental cost.

  Also Math Professor Joe Mazur wrote a book called "Euclid in the Rainforest" wherein he features a story of how he used trigonometry to get a truck unstuck in Costa Rica - or something. So after I read his book I sent him a letter that contrary to the claim of his book I didn't think that Western math was helping the rainforest at all but quite the contrary.... 

And I happened to mention my music math research. Then he encouraged me to follow up with a claim I made. So I found this quote from a math professor that corroborated my claim - by David Fowler. Then Mazur said it was impressive research and he asked me to submit it to the most read math journal. My article referenced quantum mechanics and Pythagorean meditation, etc. and I challenged all of WEstern math and so it got rejected without comment. 

Mazur then suggested I try an "Indian History of Science" journal. I didn't follow that up. But later I realized the concept I was trying to convey is called "noncommutativity" and is explained by music theory in a lecture by Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes. You can watch his lecture called "Music of Shapes" on youtube - he has several versions. So I had discovered the same concept on my own but I was calling it "complementary opposites."