manipulate , congeal and / or enshrine certain specific artificial determinations of value , price , profit and wage etc ., as somehow set , legitimate and finalized , yet , devoid of any overarching law of value . Specifically , this social warfare , or social constructive process , is more or less an extension of Clausewitz ’ s principle that “ war is a … continuation of policy [ i . e . politics ] by other means …[ that ] war is not merely a political act , but also a truly political instrument , a continuation of political commerce , a carrying out of the same by other means ”[ 106 ]. This politics is social construction itself , just as war is social construction itself . Both politics and war are two composite characteristics of the social constructive process , which encompasses and permeates the social relations and the webs of exchanges that form post-industrial , post-modern society and the interactions between societies . Moreover , through this social constructive process , certain socio-economic norms are established , including certain arbitrary determinations of value , price , profit and wage , both within and across spheres of production . Politics , like war , is the social constructive process of creative-power establishing sets of conceptual-perceptions , networks and managerial practices , which solidify business practices , business valuations , business statistics and more importantly the steadiness needed across the capitalist system in order to accumulate and extract surplus value , surplus values of all types and kinds .
The post-industrial , post-modern theory of value and surplus value , from which theories of conceptual-commodity-value-management are derived , is founded on the idea that value , price , profit and wage is a matter of what a person or network can get away with in the marketplace . It is about control and the power to set certain artificial values , prices , profits and wages , while being able to enforce these arbitrary determinations over an extended period of time and space . What the public and / or a specific economic sphere , in general , thinks is valid and an acceptable fair market value is relative in relation to the ever-changing make-up of the social constructive process inherent within the capitalist modes of production , consumption and distribution . In the end , price , value , profit and wage are always admixing with one another in ambiguity , fluctuation and arbitrariness , due to the fact that price , value , profit and wage determinations are always about what can be enforced and reinforced over an extended period of time and space , rather than about any overarching mechanical law of value .
All in all , general-value , or the general-value of any other quantifiable and / or unquantifiable value for which it can be exchanged , depends on conceptual-perception , i . e . what an individual , or a set of individuals , think of its inherent worth and exchangeability . This may be , like Marx surmised , the relative quantity of labor , which is necessary for its production , or not . This is a situation , which can only be valid , if the given individuals participating in this type of economy ascribe to the rules and assumptions set out by the Marxian ideational comprehensive framework , or for that matter the modern capitalist ideational framework etc . Conceptual-perception is always a matter of social construction , that is , a confluence of forces exerting influence on bodies and intellects coercing them , both softly and obdurately , to conform to certain socially constructed arbitrary notions and assumptions , pertaining to price , value , profit and wage etc . At its base , labor-power has little do with value , in the sense that creative-power appears to be a much more important component in value , price , profit and wage determinations . At best , labor-power , which produces a specific type of value , i . e . scientifically quantifiable value , which Marx has correctly latched onto , is nevertheless simply a medium , one of many , by which the insatiable drive for ownership / knowledge expresses itself , that is , expresses its creative-power . Subsequently , breaking with the logic of capitalism , requires the ability to understand that different ideational comprehensive frameworks conceive of value , price , profit and wage differently , in different manners , definitions and polemic lines of conflict , revolt and revolution . Ultimately , this is the conduit to the association of free men and women , working side by side , radiating creative-power and general-value in all directions , pressed with the means of production , circulation and distribution , firmly within their collective grip .