Human beings who do not want to belong to the mass need only to stop, and not be comfortable; follow their conscience, which cries out: "Be yourself! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."...your educators can be only your liberators...

I will try to be as serious as I can when writing about politics. I consider myself burnt out as a politician. The only way I know to stave off ennui when thinking about my communist past is to joke about it - a defence mechanism? Who knows. I must say I never thought I would see the day when I would attack the Labour Theory of Value - but I do in this piece, which I regret to say is a very cynical piece of work beneath all the fun.

Although I was a Marxist in my early twenties and travelled to the Soviet Union many times, I was in fact a Trotskyist and not a Stalinist. That does not mean of course that I was any the less of a Marxist than a Stalinist, or that my interpretation of Marxist economics was any different to those of the form of State Capitalist Economics of the Soviet Empire. Nor does it mean that I can be considered an expert on Marxism, the Soviet Union or economics. As a general introduction to what I am about to write, I want to make it clear that the Marxist (communist) addiction to reification was just as all devouring as any run-of-the-mill capitalist trannie (or indeed Fascist) and it might be worth me making clear a point for others, that AIT list members like you already know.

The term 'transcendentalist or trannie for short, not only applies to people who have a faith in God, devils, invisible beings, mind, soul, consciousness, being, love, etc., but is just as applicable to communists, atheists and fascists, as it is to any timid little vicar whose home parish is that of the tiny community of the fictional village of Much Binding in the Marsh of the much beloved radio comedy show in the immediate post war period in England.

Reificative-rhinoscleroma is a global epidemic which strikes suddenly at victims from all walks of life, both rich and poor and is no respecter of class, political persuasion, country or race. It is transmitted by a particularly vicious form of fetishistic greed virus which merges symbiotically with the victims brain meat. and somehow the pathogens gain sustenance from the chemicals in the ink with which bank-notes are printed. The larger the printed domination, the greater the amount of ink and the more virulent the strain. Some claim it has genetic as well as societal propagative features.

Reificative-rhinoscleroma is characterised as a chronic disease of the upper airways, commonly affecting the nasal cavity, by which the pathogens find their way to the brain via the epithelial olfactory receptor pathways. It then develops into a serious neurological affliction in which the natural concentration on real entities is diverted towards imagined, non-physical, intangible fictions.

For those in the finance and banking industry the first symptoms are the inability to smell a rat, but it may manifest itself in others by a sudden belief in God etc. For Marxists there is a fulminant exophthalmos or protrusion of the eyeballs from the sockets triggered by reading the labour theory of value, which, although it was first promulgated by the British economist David Ricardo, was utilised by Marx to characterise the sinister social mechanisms and dark satanic mills of the capitalist economic system, in which the value of the workers’ output is appropriated by the capitalists, who, driven by greed for money and power, surreptitiously don black stockings and suspenders and use cash generated by the sale of the products of the labourers’ toil to generate more wealth, the actuator for money-growth being provided by surplus value stolen from the working class.

Marx claimed that the products exchanged in the marketplace have a “use value” that is intrinsic, which meant that Marxist reificata where accommodated within the very corporeality of the claw-hammer or the material of the velvet waistcoat. Value abstractively absorbed and osmotically seeping into the very fabric of that which exists? Quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable, suckled and soaked into the plump bosom of Mother Nature? All very cosy for the dialectical materialist, but c’mon, are those values REALLY an internal feature of the inanimate objects we wonder? Do they remain there if caste over the harbour wall to sink out of human ken below the waves? Do those intrinsic values” remain when human tastes in claw hammers and velvet waistcoats change or are left in the lunar dust when the astronauts leave for home? Of COURSE they don’t!

The attribution of value is a feature of the neurological modality of the human hammerer or human clothes-horse – not the inanimate objects themselves. Marx was Mr. Personification made Flesh (a form of reverse or negative reification) the Marxist theory of Value is utter ontological nonsense – it simply does not exist – what exists are the OBJECTS of the workers’ output – the claw-hammer and the velvet waistcoat – it is THEY which are appropriated by the capitalists or the communists bureaucrats alike and bought by purchasers existing in a mode of desiring them for their own purposes. There are no such things as markets in the ontological sense. Sure there exist shopkeepers products, stalls, shopping malls, counters and tills and all the ontic paraphernalia of the wholesale and retail outlet, but the ontological marketplace is but a fiction – it is the desirers of commodities who exist in a mode of deciding how many casino-tokens they are willing to release to get their hands on a claw-hammer compared to the other place of exchange further down the road.

As Doctor Eldred prudently wrote recently,

Markets have no substance, no standing presence, but are a nothing of mutual reflection. [2] (Eldred. 2008)

Of course I would not go over the top as he did, needlessly prizing the long-buried Platonic heteron nothing out of its abandoned Athenic midden – but I'll let that one go by for now.

Although the labour theory of value originated with British economist David Ricardo, Marx seized it as an economic point of departure for exposing the tyrannical, exploitive nature of the capitalist economic system.

Of course all of these Marxist terms are exactly the same category of reifications used by the capitalists to manipulate and dominate the workers. The only thing is that the men in top hats adjust the terminology to suit their agenda. Marxist surplus value becomes reasonable profit, and use value becomes marketability or in the case of motor cars: kerbside appeal.

When the Soviet Union was established as a workers democracy, the capitalists role was assumed by the communist party bosses on behalf of themselves and a reified-deified Workers State and they simply tweaked the reificata to suit the new circumstances.

The oppressed and hapless, near-powerless working class, ignorant of the fact that, the subliminal trannie tool employed by their former bosses has been turned against them workers continued tradition of “fetishism,” as if they had never given up. Of course the new communist bosses came up with a spanking brand new reification to fit the bill: delayed satisfaction or however the notion was formulated in Russia.

                             Economically the fledgling state had strange bedfellows.

Today the large banking and financial business of the Catholic Church is an extensive system interlocked with the Rothschilds and the rest of the International Banking system. Viz. the Vatican's Bank of America in the United States which recently acquired the Wall Street investment giant Merrill Lynch. The great wealth of the Russian Czars was entrusted at that time to the Rothschilds, $35 million with the Rothschild's Bank of England, and $80 million in the Rothschild's Paris bank. The Rothschilds then financed the Russian Revolution which confiscated those fortunes plus vast portions of the Orthodox Church's wealth. They were able to prevent (due to their power) the legitimate heirs of the Czars fortune to withdraw a penny of the then mere millions deposited in a variety of their banks. The Mountbattans, who are related to the Rothschilds, led the court battles to prevent the claimants from withdrawing any of the fortune. In other words, the money they invested in the Russian Revolution, was not only paid back directly by the Bolshevists in millions of dollar of gold, but by grabbing the huge deposits of the Czars' wealth, the Rothschilds gained what has now grown (been 'leveraged') into tens of Trillions. 1] (Meier. 2008)

Normally a considerable amount of effort on behalf of the will is required to believe in the existence of invisibles, such as God or the fictive promises of politicians etc., for in both cases no evidence is available to substantiate such claims, and in both cases if there WAS evidence – there would be no need to have any faith in the first place.:-) (I thank Voltaire for that thought)

The Soviet Stakhanovites excelled themselves and railways snake out across the empire like the lashes of a Gulag whip.

Trannies are those who elevate concepts like God, actions like movement, grammatical terms like gerunds, abstract nouns (both verbal and adjectival) or any dualistically generated ideation into a sham-object, a pseudo-entity, which lacks any physical dimension and does not occupy a certain location. So, like all of the usefully fictional entities in the domain of number, so too all of the terms of economics are also non-existent useful fictions, apart from that is, terms which refer to the denotatum of words like Gary's Silver Thaler, the new drinks dispenser outside of the Accounts Department, the chairman’s secretary, the Credit Manager of the Hong Kong branch etc.

All the rest of the financial, banking and economics terminology - The Coca Cola Account, letters of credit, debt bundles, bills, investments, shares, futures, debit, probabilities, mortgages, stocks, bonds, hot issue, watered stock, blue-chips, profit, loss, labour, institutions, value, worth, discounts, sales, employment, unemployment, full employment, strikes, insurance, guarantees, incentives, data.

       Is nothing more than useful fiction just like the argot of any other profession

Information is pure, unadulterated reification which does not exist in this world or any other. The whole financial system is predicated on their being enough punters around who believe that IT DOES.

It is only in times of financial crisis that even the most mentally challenged members of the transcendenista suddenly realise with a jolt THAT IT DOESN’T and that the whole house of cards is actually an imagined incredibly interlaced reificative reticule of non-existent ideation, and that they are a part of it and that they and their neigbours and workmates are in fact the very trustors who have entrusted their gambling chips to the non-existent institutions, which are guaranteed by the state gambling casino, in order that they may be withdrawn and exchanged for food and other material requirements.

What is that you say? it is all a matter of the financial institutions you trust. But trust and institutions and banks don’t exist either, only the trustor which is a human person who creates a trust - called by banks savings’ accounts, (though there are many different forms of such fictions) by giving real or personal property, (i. e., cash in the form of metal coins or paper money, which are in themselves no more than gambling chips which the State Casino (The Bank of America or the Bank of England) guarantee may be cashed in at shops and other places to hand over in exchange for goods i. e., real objects.) in trust to a trustee or only the trustee to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit.

End of Part One.


[1] Meier. Fritz S. Environment1 · 29 Sept 2008 The International Environmental Forum. Yahoo.
[2] Eldred. Michael. Heidegger Discussion List. 30.09.2008.