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Saturday, May 2, 2026
Friday, May 1, 2026
FORCE is a Racket ; THE RACKET in Capitalism
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/03/httpsyoutu_63.html
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Karl Marx. Capital Volume One Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation <
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Charles Brown : What's the SECRET ? "briefly, FORCE " ! <
"We have seen how money is changed into capital; how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital. But the accumulation of capital presupposes surplus-value; surplus-value presupposes capitalistic production; capitalistic production presupposes the pre-existence of considerable masses of capital and of labour power in the hands of producers of commodities. The whole movement, therefore, seems to turn in a vicious circle, out of which we can only get by supposing a primitive accumulation (previous accumulation of Adam Smith) preceding capitalistic accumulation; an accumulation not the result of the capitalistic mode of production, but its starting point. <
This primitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote of the past. In times long gone by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and, above all, frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living. The legend of theological original sin tells us certainly how man came to be condemned to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow; but the history of economic original sin reveals to us that there are people to whom this is by no means essential. Never mind! Thus it came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth, and the latter sort had at last nothing to sell except their own skins. And from this original sin dates the poverty of the great majority that, despite all its labour, has up to now nothing to sell but itself, and the wealth of the few that increases constantly although they have long ceased to work. Such insipid childishness is every day preached to us in the defence of property. M. Thiers, e.g., had the assurance to repeat it with all the solemnity of a statesman to the French people, once so spirituel. But as soon as the question of property crops up, it becomes a sacred duty to proclaim the intellectual food of the infant as the one thing fit for all ages and for all stages of development. In actual history it is notorious that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, briefly FORCE , play the great part. In the tender annals of Political Economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial. Right and “labour” were from all time the sole means of enrichment, the present year of course always excepted. As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.<
In themselves money and commodities are no more capital than are the means of production and of subsistence. They want transforming into capital... <
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm <
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/04/httpswww_28.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/03/httpsyoutu_63.html<
Karl Marx. Capital Volume One Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation <
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation<
Charles Brown : What's the SECRET ? "briefly, FORCE " ! <
"We have seen how money is changed into capital; how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital. But the accumulation of capital presupposes surplus-value; surplus-value presupposes capitalistic production; capitalistic production presupposes the pre-existence of considerable masses of capital and of labour power in the hands of producers of commodities. The whole movement, therefore, seems to turn in a vicious circle, out of which we can only get by supposing a primitive accumulation (previous accumulation of Adam Smith) preceding capitalistic accumulation; an accumulation not the result of the capitalistic mode of production, but its starting point. <
This primitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote of the past. In times long gone by there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent, and, above all, frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living. The legend of theological original sin tells us certainly how man came to be condemned to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow; but the history of economic original sin reveals to us that there are people to whom this is by no means essential. Never mind! Thus it came to pass that the former sort accumulated wealth, and the latter sort had at last nothing to sell except their own skins. And from this original sin dates the poverty of the great majority that, despite all its labour, has up to now nothing to sell but itself, and the wealth of the few that increases constantly although they have long ceased to work. Such insipid childishness is every day preached to us in the defence of property. M. Thiers, e.g., had the assurance to repeat it with all the solemnity of a statesman to the French people, once so spirituel. But as soon as the question of property crops up, it becomes a sacred duty to proclaim the intellectual food of the infant as the one thing fit for all ages and for all stages of development. In actual history it is notorious that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, briefly FORCE , play the great part. In the tender annals of Political Economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial. Right and “labour” were from all time the sole means of enrichment, the present year of course always excepted. As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.<
In themselves money and commodities are no more capital than are the means of production and of subsistence. They want transforming into capital... <
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm <
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/04/httpswww_28.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2026/03/httpsyoutu_63.html<
Civil Rights Movement was the 2nd Reconstruction. This is 2nd Post-Reconstruction; 2nd rise of the KKK. Delivered
Democrat Gavin Newsom Warns Black Voters in Louisiana: "MAGA Is Rigging Elections to Silence You" (2parag...
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Civil Rights Movement was the 2nd Reconstruction. This is 2nd Post-Reconstruction; 2nd rise of the KKK. Delivered <
New Reconstruction? Try New Jim Crow. <
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Civil Rights Movement was the 2nd Reconstruction. This is 2nd Post-Reconstruction; 2nd rise of the KKK. Delivered <
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
the fact that symbolic signing, words , gives humans the ability to communicate concerning things and events that are _displaced_ in time or place from the immediate sensory field of the human communicators . Humans can communicate concerning the past or future ; even highly trained chimps cannot . Nor can chimps use negation ; can’t communicate concerning what something is not.
essay-theses linked below .
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There I focus on symbolic signing as the defining characteristic of language , differentiating it from all other animal communication . As I understand it you also focus on the symbolic aspect of language : “ Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. ... All theories of language acquisition assume these fundamental skills of intention-reading and pattern-finding.”
I am not focused on language acquisition , but the fact that signing gives humans the ability to communicate concerning things and events that are _displaced_ in time or place from the immediate sensory field of the human communicators . Humans can communicate concerning the past or future ; even highly trained chimps cannot attain these capacities . 99.99...% of the chimp species who live in the wild for millions of years have not chimps have not invrnted any of the meager symbolic communication skills that they attain in human capitivity training . Nor can chimps use negation ; can’t communicate concerning what something is not.Nor can they ask questions .
This displacement allows dead generations of humans to pass on to future generations a vast amount of knowledge about their experience through words . Why ? Because words are symbolic signs : they are using something to represent something that they are not ; there is an arbitrary relation between the sign and the thing signified ( as opposed to indexical signs , like smoke as a _natural_ or _necessary_ sign of fire ). Since a word is not what it signifies, words describing experiences of a dead generation can be passed on to future generations even though those who had the experience, those signified , are dead . They are displaced to the past relative to the living generation, out of the immediate sensory field of the living generation, but the living generations can receive communications from dead generations concerning aspects of the world and life , still important to the new generation’s lives ; because of the displacement capacity of symbolic communication, language .
So knowledge about the situation world and life can be accumulated over the generations. Analogous to what scientist Isaac Newton said about his scientific ancestors- I stand on the shoulders of giants - all humans since our origin are able to stand on the shoulders of their ancestors. This gives human a unique way of adapting in the Darwinian sense , not through random genetic mutation ( though we have that too) , but through imaginary invention that is caused by the adaptive problem it solves ; that is to say not randomly.
( I studied anthropology to a bachelors and masters degree at the University of Michigan from 1968-75 My main career has been as a lawyer , but now in retirement I teach anthropology at Wayne County Community College District in Detroit , Michigan; I was fortunate to have as my senior advisor , the great Marshall Sahlins, presente !; I’m a “Sahlinsian”, from whom I get my focus on symbols ).
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/03/theory-of-structure-of-symbols-and.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/05/identifying-something-with-something-it.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2020/12/differentia-specifica-of-human-species.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultural-darwinian-adaptations-not.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/05/culturally-inherited-adaptations-give.html
There I focus on symbolic signing as the defining characteristic of language , differentiating it from all other animal communication . As I understand it you also focus on the symbolic aspect of language : “ Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. ... All theories of language acquisition assume these fundamental skills of intention-reading and pattern-finding.”
I am not focused on language acquisition , but the fact that signing gives humans the ability to communicate concerning things and events that are _displaced_ in time or place from the immediate sensory field of the human communicators . Humans can communicate concerning the past or future ; even highly trained chimps cannot attain these capacities . 99.99...% of the chimp species who live in the wild for millions of years have not chimps have not invrnted any of the meager symbolic communication skills that they attain in human capitivity training . Nor can chimps use negation ; can’t communicate concerning what something is not.Nor can they ask questions .
This displacement allows dead generations of humans to pass on to future generations a vast amount of knowledge about their experience through words . Why ? Because words are symbolic signs : they are using something to represent something that they are not ; there is an arbitrary relation between the sign and the thing signified ( as opposed to indexical signs , like smoke as a _natural_ or _necessary_ sign of fire ). Since a word is not what it signifies, words describing experiences of a dead generation can be passed on to future generations even though those who had the experience, those signified , are dead . They are displaced to the past relative to the living generation, out of the immediate sensory field of the living generation, but the living generations can receive communications from dead generations concerning aspects of the world and life , still important to the new generation’s lives ; because of the displacement capacity of symbolic communication, language .
So knowledge about the situation world and life can be accumulated over the generations. Analogous to what scientist Isaac Newton said about his scientific ancestors- I stand on the shoulders of giants - all humans since our origin are able to stand on the shoulders of their ancestors. This gives human a unique way of adapting in the Darwinian sense , not through random genetic mutation ( though we have that too) , but through imaginary invention that is caused by the adaptive problem it solves ; that is to say not randomly.
( I studied anthropology to a bachelors and masters degree at the University of Michigan from 1968-75 My main career has been as a lawyer , but now in retirement I teach anthropology at Wayne County Community College District in Detroit , Michigan; I was fortunate to have as my senior advisor , the great Marshall Sahlins, presente !; I’m a “Sahlinsian”, from whom I get my focus on symbols ).
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/03/theory-of-structure-of-symbols-and.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/05/identifying-something-with-something-it.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2020/12/differentia-specifica-of-human-species.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultural-darwinian-adaptations-not.html
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2021/05/culturally-inherited-adaptations-give.html
CB : I'm thinking our being taught when young to read silently weakens our remembering what we read because reading it out loud puts it in our memory through two senses not just one . Reading to yourself is for reading around others sacrificing the method better for the reader to social situation of school or library.
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Drew Johnson :I concur
JR: It's possible but I like reading to myself. I've had to evaluate both in poetry, silent and aloud through reading and readings. Public readings Aloud often bring out the blowhard, while reading in silence often makes poetry bloodless and intellectual. Don't know the answer
CB: I have a somewhat one-sided purpose in reading : to remember something to use in school, legal work or political writing . Reading out loud gives sound which might be pertinent to poetry .
JR: I love language. I don't agree at all with some of my favorite writers .Ezra Pound was a Nazi. I love some of his poetry, despise him
CB: Language is the Differentia specifica of Homo sapiens from other animals' communication system. It makes "higher " than other animals in Darwinian fitness. And "lower " than other animals in that it allows us to lie ( talking and in writing ) ; only humans can lie because words are using something to represent something they are not , a double-edged sword; we can tell truths and lies . Our brains are made to love language; it's a uniquely human instinct. We can tell lies beautifully. That's the way demagogues get over on so many. Beautiful Lies. Trumpy's lies are beautiful to 10's of millions.
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http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2023/12/cb-im-thinking-our-being-taught-when.html
Drew Johnson :I concur
JR: It's possible but I like reading to myself. I've had to evaluate both in poetry, silent and aloud through reading and readings. Public readings Aloud often bring out the blowhard, while reading in silence often makes poetry bloodless and intellectual. Don't know the answer
CB: I have a somewhat one-sided purpose in reading : to remember something to use in school, legal work or political writing . Reading out loud gives sound which might be pertinent to poetry .
JR: I love language. I don't agree at all with some of my favorite writers .Ezra Pound was a Nazi. I love some of his poetry, despise him
CB: Language is the Differentia specifica of Homo sapiens from other animals' communication system. It makes "higher " than other animals in Darwinian fitness. And "lower " than other animals in that it allows us to lie ( talking and in writing ) ; only humans can lie because words are using something to represent something they are not , a double-edged sword; we can tell truths and lies . Our brains are made to love language; it's a uniquely human instinct. We can tell lies beautifully. That's the way demagogues get over on so many. Beautiful Lies. Trumpy's lies are beautiful to 10's of millions.
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http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2023/12/cb-im-thinking-our-being-taught-when.html