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• Black Bloke

  Essentials of Economics, Faustino Ballvé
  http://mises.org/books/ballve.pdf

  Away from Freedom, Vervon Orval Watts
  http://mises.org/books/away.pdf

  The Economics of Illusion, L. Albert Hahn
  http://mises.org/books/illusion.pdf

  The Keynesian Episode, W.H. Hutt
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  Published: November 14, 2008 12:22 AM

• Marat, The People's Friend

  The truth on socialism.
  Facts, –

  Although it is a fact that Lenin annuled Great October Socialistic Revolution with his ,,New economic policy” (NEP) 1921 year, that wasn’t seen by any defender or opposer of the socialism.
  In spring 1921 year, Lenin founded NEP in which everything was planned on the basis of stock, i.e. capitalistic production. He doesn’t even hide it, in fact he declared publicly, during his speech, which was taken a gramophone record and distributed over all Soviet Russia, this following sentence: ,,Is it not dangerous we call up the capitalists, does it not mean that we develop a capitalism? – Yes, it means, we are developping a capitalism, but it isn’t dangerous, ‘cause the power remains into the hands of the workers and the peasants, and during that time the property of the spahees and the capitalists will not restore” (Lenin, Writings at 40 volumes in Macedonian language, volume 34, page 134. From then on: L. 34/134) . This Lenin’s thought is entirely incorrect. It proves that Lenin didn’t understand many conclusions of Marx and Engels in their writings. We shall demonstrate it from then on.
  Within the capitalistic economy, the worker is a stock, like all other kind of stocks, which stands all markets’ influences. That ,,stock” – the worker – adds his value into stock’s value, which he produces. By the competition, the capitalists can better do business only if they lessen the value of their products. And they can achieve it only by reducing the worker’s rent. And the worker, which rent is higher, he is less worth, ‘cause it makes him uncompetetive. It means that the worker is worth only if he receives minimum rent. But, from minimum rent he can’t survive. Marx says also: ,,The higher rent would be only a better payment of slaves, but it wouldn’t contribute a human state and a majestically neither in favor of the worker nor in favor of the worker’s toil” (MEW, in Serbian-Croation language in 46 volumes, volume 3, pages 224-225. From then on: MEW 3/224,225). According to this conclusion of Marx, a ,,higher rent” doesn’t contribute to resolve the problem of the class society. ,,Stock economy is the highest form of the capitalistic production in which it produces a product still only as a stock, but not as direct sustences’ means” (MEW 23/272). It means, when we abolish the capitalism, we abolish too the capitalistic production. After this capitalism’s abolition, the means of production will become social property and there will be no need to valorize the social character of the worker’s toil, which produces consumptions’ products, by using the market. And on the other hand, by reason of the capitalism’s abolition it abolishes the antagonistic character of the society, it ceases needing of state instrument’s holding what kind was during the class society. This implicates immediately a conclusion that all the people, who ,,officiated”, now they pass into production process by what the work time of all employees is shorten. The production, which is organized in that way, is much cheaper than the capitalistic production. It expresses that ,,cheap” production on that way when social needful work time in favor of the material production is equally organized on all efficient member of the society, so that the work can be intensitied. And there is no a possibility some part of the society to transfer a burden with its material sustence on upon the working population as it happens during the class society. By reason of that the communistic production is more rational, more economic and ,,cheaper”, so adequately and more competetive than the capitalistic production. Within the communistic society there is no state ,,parasites” for whom the workers must work, and they not to produce anything. Let’s return to Lenin’s statement.
  Lenin states that it isn’t dangerous to develop a capitalism, ‘cause the power remains into hands of the workers and the peasants. ,,The power in workers’ and peasants’ hands” doesn’t have any connection with the production. And when some power restitute as a profession, it doesn’t take an interest in production of any kind, only its professional interests. Lenin had to know it on the basis of MEW. By the restablishment of stock economy he returned the workers over again at the rentable state, ‘cause now the worker must express his ,,value” in money. And ‘cause the power became a matter of the professionals, a matter of the ,,politic party”, then the worker had no more ,,power in his hands”. Lenin had to see it. His statement on ,,remaining the power into the workers’ and peasants’ hands” at the same time of stock production’s restablishment is a down pure voluntarism, which hasn’t connection of any kind to scientific treatment of the economic categories, it doesn’t mean anything, it’s only a rhetoric.
  Further on, Lenin states that by the capitalistic production’s restablishment, when the power remains into the workers’ and peasants’ hands ,,the property of the spahees and the capitalists doesn’t restore”. And this part of his conclusion is entirely arbitrary statement. When the workers take over the power in some country, if they don’t abolish the stock economy, from their lines it will shoot up ,,spahees and capitalists”. ‘Cause ,,as soon as the capitalistic production had stood up on foots, it kept up not only a separation of the workers from the means of production, already it reproduced at more and more larger measure”, says Marx in his ,,Das Kapital” (chapter 24, paragraph 3). It means that Lenin, by the capitalistic production’s restablishment, although everyone was assured that the socialism overcame, in fact he devided over again the workers from the means of production and enabled ,,this separation to reproduce itself at more and more larger measure”. There hasn’t been anymore a socialism after Lenin’s NEP.
  There is no need to prove – by other thoughts of Marx and Engels – that Lenin was mistaken catastrophically. Now it’s posed other question to us: How was it possible all the ,,learned men” in social ,,sciences” – politics, low, economy, philosophy, logic, sociology and etc. – not to perceive Lenin’s mistake? It can be explained by the fact that they either didn’t research MEW or didn’t understand what was written within them. And still less they compared what Lenin was doing with that one about what Marx and Engels have written. It’s a case not only with the pseudo-learned men in the pseudo-socialistic countries, already over all the capitalistic countries. In fact one of them – a french economist Mandel says: ,,The honour to work first in favor of their abolition as professional economist belongs to the socialistic economists”, but they didn’t accomplished it.
  When we compare the ,,scientific” writings of whoever ,,learned men” in social pseudo-sciences, immediately we can perceive that neigher they have read something nor they have understood something at all from MEW. On the basis of their unscrupulous work it has begun two delusions: 1) That Leninism had been a realization of Marxism into practice and 2) That the existing socialism had been a final downfall of the capitalism. As the time have left behind, more and more countries had decided to build a ,,socialism”. But, the ,,socialism” didn’t work anyhow. If they knew Marxism, by which it should be understood only the scientific writings of Marx and Engels, but not at all Lenin’s pettybourgeois socialism, i. e. his state capitalism, they would see where a mistake was done, then they would refuse the same error and the socialism could come in history. But Marxism wasn’t understood, so they couldn’t discover the causes of backwardness and retrogression of the ,,socialism”, so in the end of ninetieths and in the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century all the ,,socialistic” countries have refused the ,,socialism”. It has begun also a third delusion, which misleads all the capitalisms’ defenders, but it doesn’t contribute too a perspective in favor of the ,,socialism”. Everyone is, in fact, assured that the socialism failed and the capitalism is an unique alternative of the mankind’s social development. This kind of understanding is entirely wrong. Why? ‘Cause – the primitive community hadn’t returned after the slavery’s destruction, after the feudalism a slavery, and after the capitalism a feudalism – that explains that it isn’t possible after the destruction of more developed and more progressive social system to come up the preceding failed system. It isn’t possible during the evolution of the society after three historical negations to happen an affirmation.
  We proved that Lenin restored the capitalism and was wrongly assured that ,,communists” could ,,control the capitalism’s development and permit its development as much as needful” (L. 34/47, 110, 113, 119, 120, 134, 164, 356, 468; 35/72, 109, 200, 207, 217, 219, 224, 344...). These are pages in thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth volume where Lenin declares categorical that ,,it isn’t dangerous to develop a capitalism, ‘cause the power remains into the hands of the working class” (35/224) and that ,,on the basis of state capitalism it can be carrided out a passage into communism” (on the same page and within the same sentence).
  It’s more than obviously that Lenin hadn’t become capable not even to the small finger of Marx and Engels. It can be seen by many his statements on stock economy, which are entirely opposite to the statements of Marx and Engels. Further on, he speaks about Marx and Engels with an humiliation, calling them ,,Germans”, he states that these ,,Germans had written on state capitalism which existed within the capitalism, but they hadn’t written on state capitalism within the communism” (35/187). This sentence is mentioned only to be seen Lenin’s ,,style”. Even he permits hisself to attack Marx in front of all the world, on XI-th Congress of Russian Communist party (Bolsheviks) (RKP(b)), by speaking: ,,Neither Marx, nor marxists couldn’t forsee that the working class would obtain a power in one of most undeveloped countries” (35/217), which statement isn’t correct, ‘cause Marx and Engels have forseen in many their writings that it would begin exactly in Russia. ,,There is no doubt that Russia is found in the revolution’s evening… a revolution which will be of greatest importance for all Europe... This revolution is approaching by sure step…” – asserts Engels in his writing ,,On social relations in Russia” (1875-th). But, let’s leave Lenin.
  How was it possible the ,,learned men” in social sciences, from all over the world, during all the XX-th century didn’t perceive that the existing ,,socialism” wasn’t according to scientific conclusions of Marx and Engels? We said once before that it was because they didn’t research MEW and didn’t compare them with the existing social state. It tells us that they are very false learned men. And the false learned man is a pseudo-learned man – charlatan. You see, they had in their hands MEW, Lenins’ writings and the ,,socialism”, i. e. pseudo-socialism and they weren’t able to ,,bring” three ,,figures” together and to perceive which of them can’t be brought together.
  With regard to the fact that all the world is in permanent crisis during all the XX-th century, with regard to the fact that ,,learned men” in social pseudo-sciences couldn’t explain scientifically Leninism and the events with them, with regard to the fact that the same ,,learned men” have identical or less similar statements on the ,,socialism” like every petty bourgeois, like every young boy too, it needs immediately all these pseudo-learned men to be taken away from the social life and to begin to take an organization in hand of social development on the basis of scientific fundamentals, i. e. Marxism.
  Dear Comrades, and Bible and Quran too, give a basis of scientific organization of the society, but only if we understands the ,,spirit” of the ,,Holy” books. If in Lev. 25:23 is written: ,,The Lend is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me”, logically it means that one can only possesses ,,private property” of the means of sustenance till needs’ size. When it had been written (Tora) or when it had begun as a tradition, unique ,,means of production” had been the land. From the history it’s known that the mankind had begun its ,,history” with collective property of the land. From that ,,commonness” dates too the understanding that the land belongs to ,,God” ,,because by the land all of us exist”, as the leader Black Foot writes in his letter to the president of USA, who asked from him to ,,buy part of the land”. The private property of the means of production is an apsurd. Marx had proved it. See MEW 23/647; 27/470 and ,,Origin of the family, private property and state” by Engels (MEW 32/22 and further on).
  The guilt of the ,,learned men” in social ,,sciences” is that they didn’t research MEW and permitted the lack of knowledge and petty-bourgeois idiocy to wrap themselves as most important arbiters on the social development’s conceptualization. You see, during today’s level to ,,develop” the society on the basis of private property of the means of production – after three thousand years of private property’s development at which it wages ,,war of all against all”. And it wages war of that kind still. And it will wages war of that kind till the private property’s state of being.
  Unique ,,private property”, which none hasn’t right to deny is the property of the means of sustenance till needs’ size. But, that property can be acquired not with private property of the means of production, but only with individual work of every efficient member of the society with those means of production in social property.
  Dear Comrades, open your eyes and prevent the idiots, who have been incapable to read MEW, to pretend prudent and to destroy the world further on as they were destroying it till today. All the dead of XX-th century as a guilt fall on their souls and conscience, but they can’t see what the conscience means. If all that philosophical, economic and political gang had researched MEW, it wouldn’t happen First and Second World war. The world history in the XX-th century would be an history of human progress, and not an history of killings and destructions. By reason of that it may no more permit to those, who have renounced from the science and by ignoring it, to wrap themselves onto the humanity as ,,salt and light”, and they themselves have eclipsed consciousness and mind.
  It can’t be understood how those pseudo-learned men couldn’t perceive on the basis of statement of Marx in his ,,Das Kapital” (here quoted on second page) that Lenin wasn’t right. They could confirm it also on the basis of similar kind of statements in ,,Das Kapital” on ,,stock” and ,,capitalistic production” and ,,production at all” (Chapter XX-th, paragraph 2, 4 and 8). All those pseudo-learned men from East and West all the XX-th century couldn’t see that the ,,socialism” wasn’t scientifically founded. And when that kind of unscientific ,,socialism” (a type of Proudhonism) failed, they over again extract from that a mistaken conclusion that Marx ,,was doing wrong”. That kind of behaviour is disgraceful even for a common man, and much less for a scientist.
  By the law is ratified that everyone, who during his work is mistaken intentionally or by a big inattention, is criminally responsible. Why is not a criminal responsibility asked from all those ,,doctors of sciences”, who have defended or attacked the ,,socialism”, who were condemning and liquidating people pro and against the ,,socialism”, and they didn’t understand anything about that?! And why is not a criminal responsibility asked from all those, who have changed their statements for the world over one night and from yesterdays’ ,,ardent communists” have become loudest defenders of the capitalism, without to prove scientifically ,,reasons” of their ,,néophytism”. And, it’s necessary to eliminate all those charlatans from social life, in order to save the humanity from their criminal acts. The society – the humanity was enough blood paying by reason of the unconscience of those ,,learned men”, who aren’t capable to extract a correct conclusion from unusal phenomenons.
  The humanity must turn towards itself and most important problems of its existence – the production. The stock production isn’t most adequate form in favor of resolving the social problems. It’s founded on private property against which is ,,God” and logic too. Marx don’t say purposelessly: ,,None reasonable organized society can’t leave the land, which is a source of life, under control of private persons’ palms and subjected to their temper and passions” (MEW 27/470). And in ,,Das Kapital” he says that people ,,aren’t owners of the land. They are only its holders, enjoyments’ persons and they are obligated as boni patres familias (good hosts) leave it improved to the next generations” (Chapter 46, paragraph 4). Is it not similar of ,,realization” of Gods’ words: ,,The land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me” (Lev. 25:23). Marxism doesn’t give a deed of ownership for ,,God’s land” in order to tax. It says: ,,If one works, he has right to eat”. Isn’t the same statement of Paul: ,,For we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we night not be chargeabl to any of you… that if any would not work, neither should he eat” (II Thess. 3:6 – 13). By reason of that, the land shall be neither divided nor sold, but it shall be cultivated. And its yields can be eaten only by that one, who worked and who is too weak to work (baby, ill man and injured and old man). Yes, everything is said in the holy books and by Marxism, only if someone doesn’t want to see it, there is no chanse to help him/her. The people should not only look out for that one, who ,,doesn’t want to see”, but also to prevent him/her to mislead other people. And it can be best realized by the abolition of the difference between productive and unproductive work. It means too an abolition of capitalistic society in which ,,the productive work is every work which brings profit”, so we have also prostitution, drugs, pornography, crimes, wars, illusions, delusions etc. till endless.
  The holy books are also against rate of interest. See: Mo or Exodus 22:24. Or: Proverbs 28:8. And Marxism is against the money, which is result of common fact that nobody wants to see, and which persists ,,since Adam and Eve”. Actually, everyone is able to produce more than it’s needful. So, when everybody produces ,,more than necessary”, then there is no need from money and market economy, which although is very niggardly at the same time is most irrational and most corrupt. See ,,Das Kapital” (MEW 21/321).
  There is no need to explain and prove further on all the harm of the acts of all the ,,leaders”, ,,learned men” and ,,shepards of the God’s herd” till present days, which didn’t want to see in all the books what was obvious to any school boy. And their intended ,,blindness” brought to the mankind so much suffer and victims. It’s said in the beginning that the mankind’s history in the XX-th century would be much different if those ,,learned men” would act with much conscience, responsibility and according to the laws of science.
  All the world in the XX-th century is in permanent crisis. Even the capitalistic economy of most developed countries – USA, IS IN CRISIS. For everyone, who understands the science, it’s more than an obvious proof for the end of ,,Lady Exchange value”. But, as long as that isn’t explained to the people, it shall persist same thing that it’s happening with dead people in some tribe in Borneo – they have been put in some tree’s porosity and carry food to them, assured that they will revive again as soon as their spirit is back ,,from the place where it was lost”.
  In present days, there is no person in the world, specially the ,,learned men”, who are against the stock economy, but the same is not functioning. ,,It’s time for Cartagena to fall” and to replace it with the tower of ,,God’s kingdom on earth”, i. e. communism. I hope that we wouldn’t let mad men to mislead us so long time as they were misleading us till now, from the time of Marx and Engels. The mankind has more important needs than apsurd and anachronic playing of the market and market economy, which is not only an apsurd, but it’s without any explication about the thrift and satisfaction of human needs.
  I am ready to explain every sentence that I wrote to You. I don’t ask of any ,,intellectual property”, because I care for the mankind to go forward in resolving its problems, instead of ,,being hooked on” profits’ dreams that bring to this world only a misfortune. I will be glad to polemize with anyone, who doesn’t believe what I wrote in this short letter (much shorter than it should be). This is only a motive to start clearing up the biggest delusions in mankind’s history.
  

  Published: November 14, 2008 10:55 AM

• Ted Berthelote

  It is all well and good to understand and believe Austrian economics, but what good does it do from a practical point of view in the real world of shamelessly self serving banksters, politicians, and bureaucrats who hold limitless money and power? All principled attempts to eliminate the FED fail for lack of gravitas which is monopolized in the hands of the global elite.

  Tragic, if you ask me.

  Published: November 14, 2008 12:48 PM

• bathtub, the true friend of the people

  "facts" have no place in marxism. voodoo is to be believed, not to be debated.

  Published: November 14, 2008 5:40 PM