- On Value of commodities,
“What is the common social substance of all commodities? It is labour. To produce a commodity a certain amount of labour must be bestowed upon it. And I say not only labour, but social labour. A man who produces an article for his own immediate use, to consume himself, creates a product but not a commodity. As a self-sustaining producer he has nothing to do with society. But to produce a commodity, a man must not only produce an article satisfying some social want, but his labour itself must form part and parcel of the total sum of labour expended by society…If we consider commodities as values, we consider them exclusively under the single aspect of realized, fixed, or,if you like, crystallized social labour. In this respect they can differ only by representing greater or smaller quantities of labour…But how does one measure quantities of labour? By the time the labour lasts, in measuring labour by the hour, the day etc… We arrive, therefore, at thisconclusion. A commodity has a value, because it is a crystallization of social labour…The relative values of commodities are, therefore, determined by the respective quantities or amounts of labour, worked up, realised, fixed in them.” (Value, Price and Labour, pp31/32). This obviously is part of The Labour Theory of Value from which comes so much of our interpretation of capitalist production.
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Great blog.
The Agenda of the Hidden Hand is to replace all human labor with digital technology. Nano, Organic Robotics, etc.
The Agenda of the Hidden Hand is to get to this digital technology then exterminate everyone in the general population including the Hidden Hand puppets which will be no longer needed since there will be no more population to control, deceive and plunder.
The Agenda of the Hidden Hand includes the survival of 144.000 genetically blood related individuals supported and protected by digital technology with no human beings alive but the 144,000.
Until such time we, the general population are to be monitored, tagged, categorized, placed under surveillance, no natural born individual sovereign rights, guilty until authority states otherwise.
Most will go along to get along thinking just as the Jews did in Nazi Germany that they may be slaves but they will live. This is the big lie. Extermination is the Agenda's Final Solution and the ultimate goal of the Hidden Hand.
If we do not take back our sovereign individuality we are to be exterminated.
I now return you to your delusion offered by the Matrix of the Hidden Hand,
~sovereignjohn
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