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 Peter Åström ((This is an extended version of “Varan, värdet och kommunismen”,
-//riff-raff// no. 10, April 2022. Please note that although this text has
+//riff-raff// no. 10, April 2022. Exact copies may be shared in accordance with
-already been made available online, certain changes will be made over the coming
-weeks. Exact copies may be shared in accordance with
 [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/|CC BY-ND 4.0]]. Many thanks to
 GE, HJ, AW, ALB, SF and AK for comments and suggestions.))
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 stop global heating and the extinction of species. To illustrate such a
 transformation from the perspective of the total economy, we can continue the
-series above (Table 6), but assume that accumulation comes to a halt. Since the
+series above (Table 6), but assume that accumulation and population growth come
-additional capital and luxury consumption of the former property owners fall
+to a halt. Since the additional capital and luxury consumption of the former
-away we can assume a much lower rate of surplus labour, say 1/3.((The products
+property owners fall away we can assume a much lower rate of surplus labour, say
-of the soil will cost society substantially less labour when land rent is
+/3.((The products of the soil will cost society substantially less labour when
-abolished: “The determination of the market value of products, including
+land rent is abolished: “The determination of the market value of products,
-therefore agricultural products, is a social act, albeit a socially unconscious
+including therefore agricultural products, is a social act, albeit a socially
-and unintentional one. It is based necessarily upon the exchange value of the
+unconscious and unintentional one. It is based necessarily upon the exchange
-product, not upon the soil and the differences in its fertility. If we suppose
+value of the product, not upon the soil and the differences in its fertility. If
-the capitalist form of society to be abolished and society organised as a
+we suppose the capitalist form of society to be abolished and society organised
-conscious and planned association, then the 10 quarters would represent a
+as a conscious and planned association, then the 10 quarters would represent a
 quantity of independent labour time equal to that contained in 240 shillings
 [instead of 600]. Society would not then buy this agricultural product at two
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 With the means of production held in common and the livelihood of the human
 species secured, it should be possible to go forward with a plan of
-de-accumulation or disinvestment.((See Amadeo Bordiga, //[[https://www.
+de-accumulation or disinvestment.((See Amadeo Bordiga, “[[https://www.
 quinterna.org/lingue/english/historical_en/immediate_program_of_the_rev.htm|The
-immediate program of the revolution]]//, 1953. Camatte, inspired by the former,
+immediate program of the revolution]]” [1953], in //The science and passion of
-uses the term
+communism. Selected writings by Amadeo Bordiga (1912--1965)//, Chicago 2021,
-[[https://revueinvariance.pagesperso-orange.fr/glossaire.html|inversion]]. Cf
+pp. 476--480. Camatte, inspired by the former, uses the term
-also the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth|“degrowth movement”]]
+[[https://revueinvariance.pagesperso-orange.fr/glossaire.html|inversion]]. Bordiga’s
-(“décroissance” in French). Just like the “globalisation movement” at the turn
+list of measures were meant to be taken immediately after “the future taking of
-of the millennium, this movement carries some communist tendencies within it.))
+power in a country of the capitalist West” (ibid.). My view is that a programme
+of disinvestment will be difficult to put into action before the introduction of
+socialism. See also the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth|“degrowth
+movement”]] (“décroissance” in French). Just like the “globalisation movement”
+at the turn of the millennium, this movement carries some communist tendencies
+within it.))
 Let’s continue the series beyond the step illustrated in Table 7 but now assume
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 With the development of communist production through the process of
 de-accumulation, the //necessity// of performing labour //in the service of
-society//, can be reduced considerably.  It would completely revolutionise
+society//, can be reduced considerably. It would completely revolutionise
 today’s notions of work/leisure and production/consumption. As Marx put it:
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 however, that the existence of labour in general implies commodity production,
 compulsory accumulation or wage slavery.
+February 2023