--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the place of ruling
> classes and the capitalist system they substitute
> the grand conspiracy of
> history. And this happens over and over again.
Maybe the fact that the grand conspiracy of history can be used to substitute for the place of ruling classes should suggest to us that attributing things to the ruling classes is nothing but a watered-down, Marxist version of conspiracy theory.
Not that there isn't a ruling class (and an owning class), it is just that these classes are immanent categories of a society of generalized commodity production. We ascribe these classes too much agency when we forget that they are just as subsumed to the imperatives of the value form and the state as much as the rest of us are.
The two overriding imperatives of this society, depending upon where one is positioned in it, are 1) one's need to sell one's ability to labor in exchange for a wage and 2) the need to accumulate capital in order to maintain one's self in the competition between capitals.
The state's role is to maintain a stable framework for those two imperatives.
Once we depart from that, we enter the mystical realms of conspiracy theory.
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