creative-power produces values of all sorts and types that are not necessarily capable of being scientifically quantified. Creative-power produces general-value. General-value, i. e. value in general, is both quantifiable and unquantifiable, scientific and non-scientific etc. It can be an admixture of the two categories and / or be a specifically one or the other. Finally, in addition, creative-power can be instantaneous, it can be social, meaning that it can be sparked through conversation, dialogue, quiet reflection, writing, thinking etc. Creative-power can come from anywhere within a society, any sector or stratum, as a result, it does not necessarily conform to the rigors of socially necessary labor-time specific to a production process etc.
Notwithstanding, in general, and by proxy through labor-power, creative-power produces both quantifiable and unquantifiable value, both value that can be scientifically measures, like Marx argues, and value that cannot be scientifically measured, but nonetheless at times and in certain spaces has substantial influence on the capitalist processes of production, consumption and distribution in a variety of ways, both direct and indirect. General-value is the product of the creative-power that emanates from an insatiable drive for ownership / knowledge, it can be anything from aesthetic-value, color-value, moralvalue, emotional-value, cultural-value and / or financial quantifiable value etc. As a result, contrary to Marx, general-value does not necessarily equate to exact measurable units of labor-time, i. e. generalvalue in essence is invaluable and priceless. It is only the Marxist ideational-comprehensive framework and / or the modern capitalist ideational-comprehensive-framework that favors and acknowledges exclusively scientific quantifiable value, derived from labor-power subjected to the parameters of socially necessary labor-time, as the sole designation and definition of value. It is only these two frameworks“ that reduce the multiplicity of [ values and ] surplus values to the narrow confines of financial quantifiable capital, i. e. monetary gain and capital / money accumulation par excellence and nothing else”[ 13 ].
In actuality, value and labor-power are much more multi-varied, fluctuating, and malleable forces than Marx’ s initial analysis conceives. In fact, creative-power and general-value, which embody quantifiable value and labor-power within themselves, influence capitalist processes in a variety of unquantifiable ways that exceed Marx’ s strict scientific / rational analysis. By and large, creative-power is a broader understanding of labor-power, and general-value is a broader understanding of scientifically quantifiable value. In fact, creative-power and general-value infiltrate and permeate all areas of capitalist production, consumption and distribution, both destabilizing and intensifying capitalist processes and capitalism, in general:
The Creative-Power / General-Value Model:
Creative-Power � General-Value
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This model outlines the notion that creative-power has a hand in both producing general-value and, more specifically, scientific quantifiable value. Although, creative-power is not acknowledged within Marx’ s rational labor theory of value, i. e. the law of value, and is in fact dismissed as unproductive, creativepower, nonetheless influences the capitalist modes of production, consumption and distribution, so much so that creative-power is in fact the source of both general-value and scientific quantifiable value. It has a hand in all value, price, profit and wage determinations. Creative-power impacts all the capitalist processes of production, consumption and distribution, both in quantitative manners and non-quantitative