Futurist Party Aims for What
Marx Deferred
to Distant Future, Second Edition
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/1677-marx-omission-futurist-party-english.htm
حزب آینده نگر در پی هدفی که مارکس به آینده دور موکول می
کرد، ویرایش دوم
http://www.ghandchi.com/1677-marx-omission-futurist-party.htm
P.S. Sept 23, 2019: In this second edition only a few words to the text and a couple of footnotes have been added from articles that have been written by this author in the last two years. SG
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Daniel Bell in a letter to me on Sept 5, 1989 about "Theory of Uniqueness Value"
(1), noted the dilemma of Marx's Labor Theory of Value
and wrote "Marx was quite aware of the problem and in the Grundrisse, he
assumed it would disappear because scarcity would disappear and the question of
valuing labor would disappear" (2).
Daniel Bell was absolutely right and
discussion of abundance was basically omitted from Marx's published works
because he viewed it as something in a very distant future. But
contrary to Marx's perception, even 150 years ago during his
lifetime, one could have focused on achieving abundance.
In fact, requiring a stage of socialist transition period before being able to
achieve the state of abundance, was
Marx's grave error and it was the reason for
him proposing dictatorship of the proletariat to ensure irreversibility during
the arduous transition period he assumed (3). Actually
abundance does not really need a pre-requisite of a so-called socialist state
defined by the motto of "to each according to its work,"
and as
Ray Kurzweil has shown,
can be achieved through entrepreneurship, innovation and technology.
Futurists such as
Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis have focused
on abundance as a solution for social justice in the recent years (4).
Futurist Party
platform
(5) proposed by this author in 2001, was based on seeing social justice from
a new angle as explained in "Social Justice and the
Computer Revolution" (6). This way, abundance is an immediate goal and making a
political Futurist Party is the way to drive the goal of abundance,
which has been the focus of this author after seeing the
disaster
of Iran's 1979 Revolution. World Future
Society reviewed "Futurist Iran" book (7), in
2003,
where the suggested Party platform was discussed and
WFS added a subtitle of
"Futurism versus Terrorism" (8), because Islamist
terrorism is basically attacking the Western civilization for its failure to
deliver on the promise of being a just society, and thus
futurism addressing social justice is a fundamental answer to
Islamist terrorism.
Last year, Iranian Secular Democratic Party was formed abroad which defines
itself by a Futurist Platform (9). In a way, it is a higher stage of secular
democracy we had seen at the time of American Revolution in 1775, which offered
a futurist constitution for the new country-- United
States of America. This is the first attempt by Futurists to form a political
party to strive for modern futurist ideals that have been discussed in
the last 50 years. In the real world, achieving abundance for
basic needs of food and clothes has proven to be easier than
housing. Recently prominent thinkers of our time are endorsing plans such as
UBI (10). A
long term view is discussed in a book entitled "New
Variant to Meet Human Needs" (11).
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com/index2.html
November 1, 2017
Footnote:
1. A Theory of Uniqueness Value
http://www.ghandchi.com/2336-uniqueness-english.htm
یک تئوری ارزش ویژه
http://www.ghandchi.com/2336-uniqueness.htm
2. Daniel Bell's Letter to me about "A Theory of Uniqueness Value"
نامه دانیل بل درباره "یک تئوری ارزش ویژه"
http://www.ghandchi.com/Bell090589.jpg
3. Marxist Thought & Monism
http://www.ghandchi.com/2055-MarxismEng.htm
اندیشه مارکسیستی و مونیسم -یکتا گرائی
http://www.ghandchi.com/2055-Marxism.htm
4. Peter H. Diamandis' and Steve Kotler's Abundance: The Future is better than
you Think
http://www.abundancethebook.com
Ray Kurzweil + Peter Diamandis: Disruptive Technologies,
Mind-Boggling Predictions, and ‘Dangerous Ideas’
https://vimeo.com/271046020
5. Futurist Party Platform
http://www.ghandchi.com/348-HezbeAyandehnegarEng.htm
پلاتفرم حزب آينده نگر
http://www.ghandchi.com/348-HezbeAyandehnegar.htm
6. Social Justice and the Computer Revolution
http://www.ghandchi.com/238-SocialJustice.htm
عدالت اجتماعی و انقلاب کامپیوتری
http://www.ghandchi.com/265-EconJustice.htm
7. FUTURIST IRAN: Futurism vs Terrorism-Third Edition
http://www.ghandchi.com/500-FuturistIranEng.htm
ایران آینده نگر: آینده نگری در برابر تروریسم
http://www.ghandchi.com/500-FuturistIran.htm
8. Book review of Futurist Iran by World Future Society (WFS)
مرور اولین ویراش کتاب ایران آینده نگر از طرف انجمن جهان آینده
http://www.ghandchi.com/ReviewByWFS.htm
9. Iranian Secular Democratic Party
حزب سکولار دموکرات ایرانیان
https://sites.google.com/site/futuristparty
10. Reflecting on Ray Kurzweil's Support of UBI
http://www.ghandchi.com/1449-kurzweil-UBI-english.htm
نگاهی به حمایت ری کرزوایل از درآمد تضمین شده
http://www.ghandchi.com/1449-kurzweil-UBI.htm
Ray Kurzweil:The
Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society
Ray Kurzweil keynote presentation at Council on Foreign Relations meeting
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-and-its-impact-on-society-2
11. New Variant to Meet Human Needs
http://www.ghandchi.com/human-variant-book-english.htm
واریانت جدید برای تأمین نیازهای بشر
http://www.ghandchi.com/human-variant-book.htm
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