W.D. James, Yes Karl is relevant for the important insights as to labour, money & capital he brings, but unfortunately still lacks the 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') comprehensiveness, which he & many have been inspired by.
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING I began reading Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto back in 1963 as an 11 year old, along with a range of other German Economists, Hegel, Marcuse & more in multiple books & works. 1983, I tapped into Mutual-Aid, a factor of evolution by Petr Kropotkin. The problem of Marxists, 'Anarchists' ('Without artificial imposed structure'), Communists ('Community' L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') & 'Socialists' (L 'socius' = 'friend') is the framing of history during only the Oligarch commanded & controlled Colonial Empire historical period of the last 7000 years of failed ‘exogenous' (Latin ‘other-generated’) 'Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, USA-Canada, empires, without even mentioning as much. The 'indigenous' history, which Oligarchy burns, destroys, suppresses & denies is far more integrated & comprehensive. Without full knowledge of his own ancestral 'indigenous' heritage such as described in the worldwide CIRCLE-of-LIFE, Marx as an unknowing colonial cohort, can't put together a comprehensive view of history. Multiple aspects of living, once expressed as the interdisciplinary Indigenous CIRCLE-of-LIFE, which provides checks & balances for these life-functions over many 10s of 1000s of years of vibrant, abundant, distributed wealth in loving societies. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
10s of 1000s of YEARS OF INTEGRATED INDIGENOUS' WORLDWIDE RELATIONAL-ECONOMY In the 19th century social writers & researchers were greatly influenced by worldwide studies of 'indigenous' peoples, authors & biographers. Kropotkin bases his work on the 1st Nations of Siberia & Europe, with significant references to the ancient Celtic & Slavic Production-Society-Guild economic systems. Marx & Engels are influenced by the Ancient-Society writings of Lewis Henry Morgan, which Engels transforms into 'Origins-of-the-Family, Private property & the State. From this analysis of all humanity's worldwide time-based equivalency accounting on the indigenous String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). With this Indigenous time-based Knowledge Marx is able to delve into accounting-for Labour as the foundation for 'Capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence') in 'Das-Kapital' & progressive Participatory ownership as the essential individual & collective INTELLIGENCE portion of compensation among the Jura (Watch-maker & other Guilds) of Switzerland. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Because of Oligarch centralized economic control & Apartheid in Europe, Marx & Engels, never develop the core understanding of 'Economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') as based in the once worldwide collective DOMESTIC economies of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Women as primary collective animators or care-takers, healers for elderly, young, handicapped, injured, sick etc along with Accounting, Food growing, harvesting, preparation, transformation, storage etc form the core of 'economy' with Industry & Commerce (mostly men) as subset economies. ~100 people are an intimate 'FRACTAL' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') where people know each other over lifetimes & multiple generations even 1000s of years in indigenous record-keeping practices. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
RESTORING MEMORY FROM OLIGARCH IMPOSED COLLECTIVE AMNESIA What authors don't state directly is the control of Europe & the western world's fake amnesia-producing 'exogenous' Oligarch owned & issued metal-coin 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') system. Oligarch control of Finance produces control over Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med & Agriculture. String-shell 'money' Values integrate 'Capital', 'Currency' ('flow'), 'Condolence' ('Social-security'), Collegial mentored apprenticeship 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, time-math Communications & professional Costume for public identification of expertise. The cycle of Contribution, Experience, Expertise & Decision-making acumen as a system of formal accounting notation empowers & sustains all people, female & male, unlike the Oligarch system of Amnesia for contributions, designed for divide & conquer. Indigenous Time-based accounting enables the notation of contributions by diverse stakeholders over their lifetimes in 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') Accounting. Multistakeholder Participatory Corporate legislation, in many nations worldwide, requires all corporations over 30 employees, under their charters to facilitate Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer share holding, ownership, decision-making & Board representation. Invested interest by progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
Marx & Engels mention & even describe ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY quite well. However with England's Rochdale false 'Co-operatives' (L 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'multi-stakeholders') imposing of 'One-member/One-vote', the lack of recognition & voting for capital contributions launches 200 years of failed co-op economies. Failing local co-ops cause such as the Soviet Union to compensate by centralizing management control over enterprises in the central state apparatus. This centralization without local individual intelligence, causes poor decisions, process & product design throughout co-ops. I helped initiate, organize, lived & worked in Co-ops from1969-1994 watching the provincial & continental systems I was part of building, fall apart from this lack of stakeholder recognition & empowerment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
W.D. James, Yes Karl is relevant for the important insights as to labour, money & capital he brings, but unfortunately still lacks the 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') comprehensiveness, which he & many have been inspired by.
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING I began reading Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto back in 1963 as an 11 year old, along with a range of other German Economists, Hegel, Marcuse & more in multiple books & works. 1983, I tapped into Mutual-Aid, a factor of evolution by Petr Kropotkin. The problem of Marxists, 'Anarchists' ('Without artificial imposed structure'), Communists ('Community' L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') & 'Socialists' (L 'socius' = 'friend') is the framing of history during only the Oligarch commanded & controlled Colonial Empire historical period of the last 7000 years of failed ‘exogenous' (Latin ‘other-generated’) 'Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, USA-Canada, empires, without even mentioning as much. The 'indigenous' history, which Oligarchy burns, destroys, suppresses & denies is far more integrated & comprehensive. Without full knowledge of his own ancestral 'indigenous' heritage such as described in the worldwide CIRCLE-of-LIFE, Marx as an unknowing colonial cohort, can't put together a comprehensive view of history. Multiple aspects of living, once expressed as the interdisciplinary Indigenous CIRCLE-of-LIFE, which provides checks & balances for these life-functions over many 10s of 1000s of years of vibrant, abundant, distributed wealth in loving societies. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
10s of 1000s of YEARS OF INTEGRATED INDIGENOUS' WORLDWIDE RELATIONAL-ECONOMY In the 19th century social writers & researchers were greatly influenced by worldwide studies of 'indigenous' peoples, authors & biographers. Kropotkin bases his work on the 1st Nations of Siberia & Europe, with significant references to the ancient Celtic & Slavic Production-Society-Guild economic systems. Marx & Engels are influenced by the Ancient-Society writings of Lewis Henry Morgan, which Engels transforms into 'Origins-of-the-Family, Private property & the State. From this analysis of all humanity's worldwide time-based equivalency accounting on the indigenous String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). With this Indigenous time-based Knowledge Marx is able to delve into accounting-for Labour as the foundation for 'Capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence') in 'Das-Kapital' & progressive Participatory ownership as the essential individual & collective INTELLIGENCE portion of compensation among the Jura (Watch-maker & other Guilds) of Switzerland. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Because of Oligarch centralized economic control & Apartheid in Europe, Marx & Engels, never develop the core understanding of 'Economy' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') as based in the once worldwide collective DOMESTIC economies of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Women as primary collective animators or care-takers, healers for elderly, young, handicapped, injured, sick etc along with Accounting, Food growing, harvesting, preparation, transformation, storage etc form the core of 'economy' with Industry & Commerce (mostly men) as subset economies. ~100 people are an intimate 'FRACTAL' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') where people know each other over lifetimes & multiple generations even 1000s of years in indigenous record-keeping practices. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
RESTORING MEMORY FROM OLIGARCH IMPOSED COLLECTIVE AMNESIA What authors don't state directly is the control of Europe & the western world's fake amnesia-producing 'exogenous' Oligarch owned & issued metal-coin 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') system. Oligarch control of Finance produces control over Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med & Agriculture. String-shell 'money' Values integrate 'Capital', 'Currency' ('flow'), 'Condolence' ('Social-security'), Collegial mentored apprenticeship 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, time-math Communications & professional Costume for public identification of expertise. The cycle of Contribution, Experience, Expertise & Decision-making acumen as a system of formal accounting notation empowers & sustains all people, female & male, unlike the Oligarch system of Amnesia for contributions, designed for divide & conquer. Indigenous Time-based accounting enables the notation of contributions by diverse stakeholders over their lifetimes in 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') Accounting. Multistakeholder Participatory Corporate legislation, in many nations worldwide, requires all corporations over 30 employees, under their charters to facilitate Founder, Worker, Manager, Supplier, Townspeople & Consumer share holding, ownership, decision-making & Board representation. Invested interest by progressive ownership stakeholders creates the decentralized trust of participants in each department & division of enterprises. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/2-participatory-accounting
Marx & Engels mention & even describe ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY quite well. However with England's Rochdale false 'Co-operatives' (L 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'multi-stakeholders') imposing of 'One-member/One-vote', the lack of recognition & voting for capital contributions launches 200 years of failed co-op economies. Failing local co-ops cause such as the Soviet Union to compensate by centralizing management control over enterprises in the central state apparatus. This centralization without local individual intelligence, causes poor decisions, process & product design throughout co-ops. I helped initiate, organize, lived & worked in Co-ops from1969-1994 watching the provincial & continental systems I was part of building, fall apart from this lack of stakeholder recognition & empowerment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy