analyzed and under surveillance. It is free to work, according to the acceptable parameters of the softtotalitarian-state, free to shop / consume, according to the acceptable parameters of the soft-totalitarianstate, free to think, according to the acceptable parameters of the soft-totalitarian-state, free to communicate, according to the acceptable parameters of the soft-totalitarian-state and free to vote, according to the acceptable parameters of the soft-totalitarian-state etc. All the while, the distribution networks, heavily compartmentalized, stratified and bureaucratized, weave subtle guarantees that the objective is always the same,“ to maximize profit, by any means necessary, at the lowest financial cost, as soon as possible”[ 98 ].
The post-industrial, post-modern theory of value and surplus value, from which specific theories of conceptual-commodity-value-management derive, dictates that value, price, profit and wage determinations are founded on and held together in place, via networks of capitalist social relations and capitalist webs of exchange, that buttress and socially construct particular artificial exclusionary markets and conceptual-perceptions, devoid of all free-standing independent capitalist laws. In fact, recourse to autonomous independent economic laws, such as Marx’ s law of value, only serves to sheath and veil the inherent origins and mechanics of value, price, profit and wage formations, namely the arbitrary social construction of value, price, profit and wage behind the capitalist veneer of economic equality, economic parity and economic free markets. For Marx, the opposite is the case, in the sense that Marx seeks to outline the universal autonomous capitalist law of value behind the veneer of the social construction of value, price, profit and wage. He does not see the pervasive social construction and bias behind the superficiality of his seemingly independent free-standing law-like economic mechanism, which exude the mystical fetishism that the economy is devoid of free-will and that everyone is equal before the capitalist economy and its economic processes, when in fact, the polar opposite is the case. Marx does not see that the capitalist system is socially pre-arranged and socially pre-determined rather than autonomously / economically pre-arranged and pre-determined, in advance, in favor of those most connected, most indoctrinated and most emblematic of the logic of capitalism.
In fact, in general, capitalism must have opacity, it must function and operate behind certain opacity, if it is to marshal confidence and faith in its processes, hence, it must project a sense of democratic distribution, fairness in its lack of willful influence and a certain level of unpredictability. Subsequently, it does this through the mythology of immutable free-standing economic laws, which conveniently stipulate that all commodities, all people, all spheres of production are equal and the same in relation to these overarching laws. Notwithstanding, this mysterious economic mythology, which Marx unwittingly ascribes to, fittingly cloaks, an artificial social constructive process of arbitrary value, price, profit and wage-formation, taking place behind the scenes, behind the democratic economic façade.
According to Marx,“ the ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses, in the face of the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces”[ 99 ], meaning that all real crises are founded on a lack of money and an underconsumption, pertaining to the general public, in relation to an overproduction of goods and services. For Marx, in so far as a crisis breaks out, it is then simply a question of means of payment. But since each person is dependent on someone lese for the arrival of these means of payment, and no one knows whether the other will be in a position to pay on the due date, a real steeplechase breaks out for those means of payment that are to be found in the market, i. e. for banknotes. Each person hoards as many as he can get his hands on, so that notes vanish from circulation the very day they are most needed.[ 100 ]