“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The great words of Martin Luther King were spoken in his fight for civil rights. The fight for the right to be recognised for your character and not to limit the value of individuals through ill conceived social labels.
Martin Luther King’s great uplifting words are directly opposed to the Marxist definition of the average price of wage labour.
According to Marx “the average price of wage labour is the minimum wage.” Marx defines minimum wage as “the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer“.
Marx makes a fundamental error in his characterisation of the price of labour. Marx’s definition of the minimum price of labour is based on the principles of slavery. That is, Marx’s price of labour is framed in the context of owning a slave or serf. In Marx’s flawed concept of production, an individuals’ personal characteristics, values, beliefs and traits, that is a person character that adds additional value to tasks are not considered, and don’t exist.
MLK fought for the recognition that an individuals’ contribution to society is driven by their character, and for individuals to be justly recognised & rewarded for the “content of their character”. MLK directly opposed to the Marxist artificial view of the average price of wage labour, that is the value of a slave.
Marx defines the price of Labour from the perspective of the cost to the slave owner or feudal lord for the “requisite subsistence of bare existence of the labourer”.
Marx’s definition is consistent with his authoritarian ideology and his conveniently simplistic view of the productive world. A world where the individual proletarian has no distinction, has no say in their destiny, is not able to negotiate their value and are bound by a command and control society. A society where nobody does more than what is asked as there is no incentive or reward to speak up, advance their circumstance or enhance the task at hand. The commune society that is the void of individual character advocated by Karl Marx is the social structure MLK fought against.
Interestingly, the opposite circumstance was unfolding in Europe in the 18th and 19th century. The industrious “bourgeois” and their principles of free markets, free trade and open competition for capital was enabling the “freed serfs” to become wealthy and independent of their feudal lords. This change in the European social fabric was undermining Marx’s utopian ideal; the commune society of the controlled population, serving the unelected bureaucracy of your betters.
In the Marxist utopia of the authoritarian commune, there is no competition for providing products and services to advance all of society. The authoritarian commune has no reward mechanism to create value for the community. There is no distinction or difference in a person’s productive output based on individual effort, motivation, ingenuity, behaviour, values, beliefs, aspirations or responsibility to one’s family.
Ironically, the only reward system in a communist society is to serve and promote the communist party and the communist ideal. To monopolise a reward system to serve the authoritarian power of communism is inherently to service a corruptive power. The corruptive power where positions of authority are rewarded unequally, avoid transparency and where unequal access to private gain of “state” resources is the accepted norm.
The communist utopia is a mirage sold to the proletariat for the purposes of serving not the proletariat but the malevolent few who seek personal benefit from the privileged positions within the communist bureaucracy. Marx refers to the relationship between the proletariat and the malevolent few the bond of man to his “natural superiors”.
Conversely, an environment of free markets, freed people and open competition acts as a catalyst for creating value for the community. The market forces will determine the price of labour. Free citizens can choose not to participate when the price offered for their labour is valued at “bare existence”. In a free society, citizens can choose to participate in productive environments where the specific characteristics of their knowledge and labour is valued at a price that serves their specific household needs and aspirations.
A “free society” commits participants to educate themselves, to look after their health, to train, gain and maintain a tradable skill, to maintain a healthy social network, to be a ”valued” member of society and to participate in the maintenance of a healthy community.
Most importantly, members of a “free society” must participate as custodians of the belief systems that maintains the “free society”.
Fundamental to the Marxist sales pitch is to advocate the benefits of outsourcing the “burden” of personal responsibility to your betters. Your betters being the lords and societies bureaucratic nobility. Marx refers to your relationship with the anointed overseers as the idyllic relations of “the motley feudal ties that bounds man to his natural superiors”
Marx with his manipulative techniques of persuasion, leverages the false claim that the entire proletariat population has no power to determine the value of their labour and that the average price of Labour is equal to the cost of bare existence. In effect, Marx contends that all proletariat are no better than salves and serfs of the feudal society and therefore will benefit from outsourcing all decisions on the price of your labour to a central bureaucracy.
The key fact Marx avoids highlighting to his readers is the cost of outsourcing the value of your labour. That is, the personal cost of outsourcing the value of your labour is your freedom itself!
The implication of the communist ideal is the return of society to that resembles feudalism, a commune of serfs and that are governed by the appointed natural superiors.
The price of the wage labour of an individual is the function of the distinctive attributes the individual brings to their role, the competitive market for their skills, their ability to negotiate and the market value of the aggregate product or service they produce.
The average price of labour is not the minimum wage as it would be in slavery as Marx defines.
The average price of labour is the aggregate productive value of the distinctive competencies held by the collection of individuals in question. As Martin Luther King understood, the price of your labour is largely determined by the content of your character.
The Liberal RedPill 