THE BASIC INTERDEPENDENT SPHERES OF THE EARTH SURROUNDED BY MAGNETOSPHERE AT AND AFFECTNG EACH “LOCATION” ON EARTH
AT EACH LOCATION HUMAN BEINGS TURN THEM INTO “PLACES” AS THEY EVOLVE AND THROUGH THE SOCIETIES AND SUB-SYSTEMS THEY GENERATE AND REPRODUCE. SOCIAL FORMATIONS ARE BROAD SOCIETIES COMPOSED OF MULTIPLE AND INTERACTING MODES OF PRODUCTION ONLY ONE OF WHICH IS DOMINANT AND NAMES THE SOCIAL FORMATION: COMMUNAL, SLAVE, FEUDAL, CAPITALIST, SOCIALIST
THE CORE EXISTENTIAL AND SURVIVAL IMPERATIVES OF ALL SOCIAL FORMATIONS
SSAs or SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF ACCUMULATION ARE DYNAMIC COMPLEXES OF INSTITUTIONS AND RELATIONS DEALING WITH ALL SPHERES OF A SOCIAL FORMATION STRUCTURING SOCIAL RELATIONS AND IDEAS TO CONTINUE AND OVERCOME ANY RESISTANCE TO THE EXPANDED REPRODUCTION OF CAPITAL AND CAPITALISM
THE FACT THAT CAPITALISM IS A PRODUCT OF HISTORY AND CAME OUT OF THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FEUDALISM AND OTHER MODES OF PRODUCTION ALSO SUGGEST THAT MAYBE HISTORY IS NOT FINISHED
The “Dharma Wheel” of Capitalism. With each of the imperatives a necessary but not sufficient condition of the next. Note contradiction between production versus realization of surplus value as all costs are incomes and as incomes and wealth are increasingly unequally distributed. It is called the “Henry Ford Effect”: Mass production and “efficiency” require mass demand and markets and those who produce the commodities able and willing (real incomes + “tastes and preferences”) to buy. The way out, those who rule think, in the short-run, anyway is rising Debt. Note also the contradiction between the values necessary for the production of maximum possible surplus value (workplace cohesion and cooperation, discipline, focus, constant learning) or/versus those required of the same workers as “insatiable consumers” willing to undertake back-breaking debt (e.g. egoism, ultra-individualism, impulsive, unable to delay gratification, fad and peer-influenced,)
