Post by MagusKariusPrelune on Dec 4, 2004 17:37:29 GMT -5
Originally posted by Addendorff
As per requested my lord, a background into the arising faction known as Marixism.
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CLASSIFICATION: Dark Alpha
AUTHOR: Inquisitor Anagnostes Discere, Ordo Hereticus
DATE: 23122003.M41
SUBJECT: A brief over-view of the heretical Marix movement.
RECIPIENT: *Invalid security classification*
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There is no arguing with the barrel of a gun.
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Carlo Marix was the founder of the faction. His ideas have always been influential in the imperium but since the Shrike IV revolution they have been taken into a major theoretical debate. Basically Marix sees human behaviour as a result of man’s social environment. Change society, Marix says, and you change the people.
In Marix’s theory, society is a totally comprising a superstructure – social institutions such as the family, education and law, all interconnected – based on a substructure, the economy. Marix emphasises the predominant influence of the economic system over all over institutions because it fulfils people’s basic needs. – Food and shelter. And the way people produce their goods determines the way they work and live together.
Marix distinguishes, therefore, between the forces of production and the relationships of production. He sees the evolution of a world (from feudal to industrialised etc.) as a series of epochs, developing as people increased their exploitation of nature. From rock and wood of under-developed worlds to gases and plasma produce of industrialised worlds.
Primitive societies tend to produce and share everything in common but as societies advance so there developed PRIVATE control of the MEANS OF PRODUCTION as one group of individuals or family established control over the rest and used there power to exploit them. Society becomes divided into RULING classes and SUBJECT CLASSES such as the Magos and there slave servitors in the Adaptus Mechanus or the Planetary Governor and his slaves. Such ruling classes rule not only threw force but also threw ideological controls such as factionism. However, as a new mode of production developed and as the subject classes unite and revolt against its exploitation, so a new epoch, a new system of government and economy emerged. Before Imperial forces move in and re-establish imperial control. Thus, in Marixs view, the imperium as it is, is doomed to in-fighting and final collapse. The inner fighting is called CLASS STRUGGLE by Marixists, heretical by others.
In his major works DAS KAPITAL, Marix made a detailed analysis of the epoch prevailing today, IMPERIALISM. Its forces of production – the forge, the mine and the mill – were privately owned. The workers and owners divided into two main social classes – the PROLETARIAT and the BOURGEOISE. Though the IMPERIUM OF MAN is still the key organ of class rule (the Adeptus Arbites, Imperial Guard, etc.) in liberal democracies where people have the vote and some apparent control of the government, ‘ideological’ control is more important than in the past if people are to except IMPERIALISM as fair and natural.
It has to be justified, to appear to be fair, and this is achieved through the Adeptus Arbites and educational systems, the welfare state and the mass media. All of these systems appear to be working in the interest of all and to be open to all but in fact they primarily serve the interests of the ruling class and help reproduce class relations. The Adeptus Arbites and the educational system in fact work operate in favour of the better-off, the welfare state keeps the workers from starving and so revolting and the medias version of the ‘news’ is often that of the IMPERIUM. The workers often fail to see the true nature of their exploitation because of FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS and the exclusion of alternate ideas.
Marix argued that like previous epochs, IMPERIALISM contains the ‘seeds of its own destruction’ due to its inherent contradictions. The bourgeoisie need to maximise profit as one guild competes against another, and so exploits the workers, paying them merely substance wages. The difference between what the workers are paid and what the owner takes as profit Marix calls the surplus value of labour.
In Marix’s scenario, the decline of IMPERIALISM is heralded by a drop in the number of firms as monopolies are created. The ranks of a proletariat are swelled by bankrupt businessmen, and the workers in the factories become increasingly organised through trade unions, with an increased sense of class-consciousness. Finally, Marix predicts, they would rise up against the bourgeoisie and establish socialism.
He never outlined these final stages in any great detail, but seemed to envisage a social order based initially on a workers state, ‘the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ under which the means of production were communally owned. Since there would be then no means of exploitation, social classes and even the IMPERIUM OF MAN would ‘wither away’. Wealth would be distributed according to need rather than ability. Work and production would be based on cooperation rather than competition. In a truly COMMUNIST society man’s true nature would be liberated and social relationships would be based on harmony rather than conflict and exploitation.
Whilst Marix claims that his analysis was objective, even scientific and so inevitable, he was also publicly active in the Communion Manifesto on Earlham XI’s heresy. He seeks to place Marixism as the ‘vanguard of proletariat’ and establish it as a dominant faction. Certainly his ideas have inspired millions of people, especially near the eastern fringe, to rebel against the imperium and sow discord and heretical teachings, though few of these rebellions could truly be called MARIXIST.
Inevitably such a revolutionary doctrine has attracted extensive criticism, in particular:
1. In advanced IMPERIAL societies, a MIDDLE CLASS has arisen and grown, to act as a buffer zone for social mobility between the bourgeoisies and the proletariat.
2. So-called COMMUNIST societies, though they have raised the living standards of the populace, have also developed inequalities almost as great as those in IMPERIAL societies and the individual is certainly less free. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat has often been replaced with a Communist Party.
3. The Ecclesiarch has been, until recently surprising quite on the subject, until the Shrike IV rebellion that’s effect are still being felt today on the eastern fringe. The Church accuses Carlo Marix of high treason and teaching heretical doctrines.
Many of the criticisms of Marixism are more those of his followers than of Marix himself, except for the Ecclesiarch. He has had a profound influence on modern thinking (until Shrike IV) and a great deal of both early and modern sociology has been a debate with ‘the ghost of Marix’ (e.g. the writings of Marx Rossenstien). Modern or neo-Marixism has involved attempts to apply Marix’s ideas to areas he only touched on [e.g. organisations, gender, urban sociology] or to re-analyse areas that have since changed. For example:
(i) CLASS – the growth and heterogeneity of the modern middle class, new forms of property ownership and shareholding and the lack of proletarian radicalism have all necessitated re-thinking.
(ii) THE ROLE OF WOMEN – has been extensively re-analysed by feminists, many using a Marix perceptive.
(iii) URBAN SOCIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT – amid economical and social depression Marixism usually enjoys a boost in support and can sometimes lead to full-scale rebellion.
Although Marix died fourteen years ago in Tau space, Marx Rossenstein still spreads his corruption from the safety of the Tau empire.
As ever your loyal servant,
=][= Anagnostes Discere, Ordo Hereticus.
______________________________________________________________
And so did October 31, 2003 pass into the conclaves history as the night of massive lock down.
And so, as His dark legions feed, the moon reigned eternal, and the earth ran red with blood.
As per requested my lord, a background into the arising faction known as Marixism.
+++ File Download Complete +++
+++ File Opening +++
+++INQUISITORIAL REPORT+++
CLASSIFICATION: Dark Alpha
AUTHOR: Inquisitor Anagnostes Discere, Ordo Hereticus
DATE: 23122003.M41
SUBJECT: A brief over-view of the heretical Marix movement.
RECIPIENT: *Invalid security classification*
+++THOUGHT FOR THE DAY+++
There is no arguing with the barrel of a gun.
+++END THOUGHT+++
Carlo Marix was the founder of the faction. His ideas have always been influential in the imperium but since the Shrike IV revolution they have been taken into a major theoretical debate. Basically Marix sees human behaviour as a result of man’s social environment. Change society, Marix says, and you change the people.
In Marix’s theory, society is a totally comprising a superstructure – social institutions such as the family, education and law, all interconnected – based on a substructure, the economy. Marix emphasises the predominant influence of the economic system over all over institutions because it fulfils people’s basic needs. – Food and shelter. And the way people produce their goods determines the way they work and live together.
Marix distinguishes, therefore, between the forces of production and the relationships of production. He sees the evolution of a world (from feudal to industrialised etc.) as a series of epochs, developing as people increased their exploitation of nature. From rock and wood of under-developed worlds to gases and plasma produce of industrialised worlds.
Primitive societies tend to produce and share everything in common but as societies advance so there developed PRIVATE control of the MEANS OF PRODUCTION as one group of individuals or family established control over the rest and used there power to exploit them. Society becomes divided into RULING classes and SUBJECT CLASSES such as the Magos and there slave servitors in the Adaptus Mechanus or the Planetary Governor and his slaves. Such ruling classes rule not only threw force but also threw ideological controls such as factionism. However, as a new mode of production developed and as the subject classes unite and revolt against its exploitation, so a new epoch, a new system of government and economy emerged. Before Imperial forces move in and re-establish imperial control. Thus, in Marixs view, the imperium as it is, is doomed to in-fighting and final collapse. The inner fighting is called CLASS STRUGGLE by Marixists, heretical by others.
In his major works DAS KAPITAL, Marix made a detailed analysis of the epoch prevailing today, IMPERIALISM. Its forces of production – the forge, the mine and the mill – were privately owned. The workers and owners divided into two main social classes – the PROLETARIAT and the BOURGEOISE. Though the IMPERIUM OF MAN is still the key organ of class rule (the Adeptus Arbites, Imperial Guard, etc.) in liberal democracies where people have the vote and some apparent control of the government, ‘ideological’ control is more important than in the past if people are to except IMPERIALISM as fair and natural.
It has to be justified, to appear to be fair, and this is achieved through the Adeptus Arbites and educational systems, the welfare state and the mass media. All of these systems appear to be working in the interest of all and to be open to all but in fact they primarily serve the interests of the ruling class and help reproduce class relations. The Adeptus Arbites and the educational system in fact work operate in favour of the better-off, the welfare state keeps the workers from starving and so revolting and the medias version of the ‘news’ is often that of the IMPERIUM. The workers often fail to see the true nature of their exploitation because of FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS and the exclusion of alternate ideas.
Marix argued that like previous epochs, IMPERIALISM contains the ‘seeds of its own destruction’ due to its inherent contradictions. The bourgeoisie need to maximise profit as one guild competes against another, and so exploits the workers, paying them merely substance wages. The difference between what the workers are paid and what the owner takes as profit Marix calls the surplus value of labour.
In Marix’s scenario, the decline of IMPERIALISM is heralded by a drop in the number of firms as monopolies are created. The ranks of a proletariat are swelled by bankrupt businessmen, and the workers in the factories become increasingly organised through trade unions, with an increased sense of class-consciousness. Finally, Marix predicts, they would rise up against the bourgeoisie and establish socialism.
He never outlined these final stages in any great detail, but seemed to envisage a social order based initially on a workers state, ‘the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ under which the means of production were communally owned. Since there would be then no means of exploitation, social classes and even the IMPERIUM OF MAN would ‘wither away’. Wealth would be distributed according to need rather than ability. Work and production would be based on cooperation rather than competition. In a truly COMMUNIST society man’s true nature would be liberated and social relationships would be based on harmony rather than conflict and exploitation.
Whilst Marix claims that his analysis was objective, even scientific and so inevitable, he was also publicly active in the Communion Manifesto on Earlham XI’s heresy. He seeks to place Marixism as the ‘vanguard of proletariat’ and establish it as a dominant faction. Certainly his ideas have inspired millions of people, especially near the eastern fringe, to rebel against the imperium and sow discord and heretical teachings, though few of these rebellions could truly be called MARIXIST.
Inevitably such a revolutionary doctrine has attracted extensive criticism, in particular:
1. In advanced IMPERIAL societies, a MIDDLE CLASS has arisen and grown, to act as a buffer zone for social mobility between the bourgeoisies and the proletariat.
2. So-called COMMUNIST societies, though they have raised the living standards of the populace, have also developed inequalities almost as great as those in IMPERIAL societies and the individual is certainly less free. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat has often been replaced with a Communist Party.
3. The Ecclesiarch has been, until recently surprising quite on the subject, until the Shrike IV rebellion that’s effect are still being felt today on the eastern fringe. The Church accuses Carlo Marix of high treason and teaching heretical doctrines.
Many of the criticisms of Marixism are more those of his followers than of Marix himself, except for the Ecclesiarch. He has had a profound influence on modern thinking (until Shrike IV) and a great deal of both early and modern sociology has been a debate with ‘the ghost of Marix’ (e.g. the writings of Marx Rossenstien). Modern or neo-Marixism has involved attempts to apply Marix’s ideas to areas he only touched on [e.g. organisations, gender, urban sociology] or to re-analyse areas that have since changed. For example:
(i) CLASS – the growth and heterogeneity of the modern middle class, new forms of property ownership and shareholding and the lack of proletarian radicalism have all necessitated re-thinking.
(ii) THE ROLE OF WOMEN – has been extensively re-analysed by feminists, many using a Marix perceptive.
(iii) URBAN SOCIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT – amid economical and social depression Marixism usually enjoys a boost in support and can sometimes lead to full-scale rebellion.
Although Marix died fourteen years ago in Tau space, Marx Rossenstein still spreads his corruption from the safety of the Tau empire.
As ever your loyal servant,
=][= Anagnostes Discere, Ordo Hereticus.
______________________________________________________________
And so did October 31, 2003 pass into the conclaves history as the night of massive lock down.
And so, as His dark legions feed, the moon reigned eternal, and the earth ran red with blood.