processes of capitalist production, consumption and distribution, permitting the capitalist modes of production, consumption and distribution to reduce expenditures and, I dare say, expand its extraction and accumulation capabilities. And more importantly, normalizing the logic of capitalism, i. e. the logic, that impels and forces the maximization of“ profit by any means necessary at the lowest financial cost as soon as possible”[ 15 ]. In effect, creative-power is the intelligence permeating all the capitalist structures of labor-power, which is able to fasten and / or unfasten the brute force of labor-power that is directly fixed to the assembly-lines and / or divisions of labor pervading capitalism, i. e. the many capitalist modes of production, consumption and distribution. Creative-power is the fulcrum of capitalism itself, it refines and perfects the socio-economic processes of capitalism and it normalizes the brutally and the exploitation of the capitalist-system. Creative-power is primarily unquantifiable value, as a result, it is the unacknowledged unpaid central-operating-code and revolutionary force that contours all capitalist processes.
In sum, the creative-power that permeates capitalism in general, has an innate ability to circumvent the pitfalls outlined by Marx’ s fatalist capitalist analysis in volume 3. More importantly, the creative-power that permeates capitalism in general, has an innate ability to negate Marx’ s rational labor theory of value, that is, the law of value, which is itself based on a rigorous economic rationality that, although beautiful and well-organized in its exposition, lacks pragmatic verity in describing real postindustrial, post-modern socio-economic phenomena. This is not to say that Marx totally missed the mark, but his emphasis on scientific quantification and the scientific quantification of value, namely, that value can only be measured and thought of in particular seconds, minutes, hours, and days of exact unitexpenditures of labor-power, means that Marx reduced capitalism to a mechanistic law-like Newtonian clock / apparatus. The fact is that capitalism, i. e. the logic of capitalism, is far more plural, adaptable and cunning, to ever limit itself to the confines of a rational labor theory of value, i. e., an overarching indisputable law of value. Its sole premise, if it has one, is to maximize profit by any means necessary. Consequently, due to his strict use of economic reason and rigorous scientific analysis, Marx, ultimately reduced the logic and the apparatus of capitalism to inflexibility, inelasticity and homogeneity, a rigid system governed by a set of narrow immutable laws incapable of malleability, dexterity and heterogeneity, i. e. capitalism as a scientific quantifiable equalizing apparatus, where value, labor-power, price, wages etc. are predictable and categorically constant over time and over space. Apropos, Marx failed to notice the creative-power and the anarchy influencing, shaping and informing the capitalist modes of production, consumption and distribution, beyond what can be scientifically quantified. Beyond the strict parameters of mechanistic economic reason and its tendency to envision capital, and capitalism, as a mechanical homogenizing force, hardwired towards general equalization across all spheres.
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Examining this fact more closely, through Marx’ s famous economic model outlined in the first two sections of volume 3, pertaining to prices of production, that is, how value generated in the capitalist production process is eventually transformed via exchange into profit and prices of production, it is evident that, for Marx, total prices equals total value. As Marx states,“ price, in its general concept, is simply value in the money form”[ 16 ], meaning that“ the formal conversion of … value into price [ is ]… a mere change of form”[ 17 ], and in order to do this sort of conversion, ultimately,“ price =… value”[ 18 ]. This is the basis of Marx’ s whole abstract economic model outlined in the first two sections of volume 3, which, at the most abstract level of economic reason, means that the total sum of values equals the total sum of prices, i. e., all the individual prices found in the marketplace taken as a whole equal all the individual quantifiable values taken as a whole. Marx arrives at this fundamental equation by conceiving the economy as a unified totality; and only at the abstract level of an economic unified totality, for Marx,