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 ]