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.Marx also attempts to penetrate deep structures ofsocial illusion, perhaps the philosopher s essential task, whereas Mill isinclined, as English-speaking philosophy generally, to take appearances atface value.Finally, Marx s development of substantive social alternativesis much deeper and more wide-ranging than the more conservative Mill s,attempting to outline the systematic transformation of the entire socialorder.22.For a fuller analysis of this principle and its testing, see my The Unspeakable:Understanding The System of Fallacy of the Media , Informal Logic, Vol.X:No.3 (Fall 1988), 133 50.23.Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics.NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp.377 8.24.The historically sustained press of neo-classical economics to construe itselfas a physics amenable to the formalist reductions of mathematical equationswhich rule out all value problems by definition has increasingly dominatedthe discipline for over a century.For a detailed and sophisticated accountof this research programme, see Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light,New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.25.The analogy is not remote from the facts of the world. Development byinvasion , observes Berkeley geographer, Bernard Nietschmann, is done byall of the most populous states that together lay claim to 63 per cent of theworld s peoples, and 43 per cent of the land area. Nietschman s and othersdocumentation show that the ratios of land controllers to populations, theobey-or-be-killed relationship between them, the absolute prohibition ofself-organization to construct an alternative, and the regularized extractionof super-profits from this arrangement in general resemble concentration-camp conditions for over 3000 million persons.(Bernard Nietschman, Economic Development By Invasion of Indigenous Nations , Fourth WorldJournal, Winter 1985 86 (1:2), pp.89 126.) The 12 years since this articlehave marked a consolidation of this wealth-producing situation, withtransnational trade agreements and IMF austerity programmes establishedsubsequently to reduce social costs, expedite production and export, protectinvestment security, and prohibit process discrimination against tariff-freed commodities extracted in this manner.26.William Krehm, Social Immune Deficiency? Economic Reform (8:2) June 1996,p.4.Krehm identifies Leon Walras as the lead figure in the exile of value theoryfrom economics but Arthur Marshall s and W.S.Jevous revolution ofeconomic theory by marginal utility analysis made the study of economicbehaviour in terms of mathematically conceived preference schedulespossible.In the current era, econometrics has become dominant in thediscipline, and mathematical functions have in this way displaced humanbeings and relations as the proper objects of economic science.27.John Rawls, A Theory of Justice.Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,1968, pp.142 3.28.David Gauthier, Morals By Agreement.New York: Oxford University Press,1986, p.7.264 THE CANCER STAGE OF CAPITALISM29.A mundane illustration here is the pronouncement of the University ofToronto historian, Michael Bliss, who denounced the country of Canada ,with no qualifying attribute, for contributing next to nothing to bring downthe red regimes and consistently supporting the oppressors of the Cubanpeople.( Canada Will Rue Support For Castro , Toronto Star, March 22, 1996,A19.) No professional historian publicly responded with methodologicalconcern for the absence of any factual evidence in Bliss s expression of thedominant value programme, or for his presentist opinions as a bylined historian.30.Digby J.McLaren, Reply to Colin Rowat , Delta Newsletter of the GlobalChange Programme (Royal Society of Canada) Vol.7: No.3 (1996), 3; andErnst Weizzsacker, Factor Four.London: Earthscan Books, 1997.31.George Grant, in a lesser-known work, implies a ruling class behind thepenultimate rule of technology when he asserts: Power is increasinglyconcentrated, so that most people have to pursue their individual gainwithin conditions set by the corporations, while the few who set the conditionsoperate the calculus of greed, ambition and self-interest to their own ends(M.Oliver (ed.), Social Purpose For Canada.Toronto: University of TorontoPress, 1961, p.4).But even here, Grant does not relate the march oftechnology to the logic of profit maximization behind it.Rather he keeps themas separate issues, and interprets the value programme of the money-to-more-money sequence as the disordered motivation-structure of a corporate few.32.The following text from a retired senior economist of the InternationalMonetary Fund is a revealing window on the closed circle of judgement withinwhich the creatures of this social value programme are confined in completedisregard of the programme s effects on living societies and their members:What we had done over these years was to manufacture statistical indices the RULC (Relative Unit Labour Cost) and several others that wouldallow us to prove our point, and push a particular policy line, irrespectiveof economic realities.Our previous mistakes were never mentioned.We went glibly on to ask for more.devaluation of the local currency,removal of price controls even on the most basic essentials, acceleratedreduction of wages, removal of exchange controls on external capitaland current transactions, spectacular cuts in public sector wage bills, deepreductions in transfers to persons, in social services, including healthand education, systematic increases in interest rates, restructuring of thetaxation system to increase its regressiveness, and indiscriminate divestmentof public enterprises.(Davison L.Budhoo, Open Letter of Resignation tothe Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, New York:New Horizons Press, 1990, cited in Economic Reform, Vol.10: No.7, July1998, p.10.)Chapter 2: The Pathologization of the Market Model1.In testimony given to the War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Tribunalat the 1989 World Summit in Toronto at which I was Chair of Jurists, a formerEl Salvador death-squad officer testified: If we were told that someone wasa communist or subversive, then normally we would eliminate thatperson (Toronto, June 11, 1988).For an analysis of the relationship betweenNOTES AND REFERENCES 265anti-communism and global market ideology and practice, see my Fascismand Neo-Conservatism: Is There a Difference? Praxis International.Vol.4:No.1 (1984), pp.7 24.2.Adam Smith, Of Restraints Upon Imports From Foreign Countries of SuchGoods As Can Be Produced At Home , Book IV, Chapter II, An Inquiry intothe Nature and Understanding of the Wealth of Nations.New York : P.F
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