МИЛИТАРИЗАМ И ДЕФОРМАЦИЈА ОДНОСА ПРОИЗВОДЊЕ У КАПИТАЛИЗМУ
MILITARISM AND DISTORTION OF PRODUCTION RELATIONS IN CAPITALISM

Summary/Abstract: 1) Imperialist policy of the financial oligarichy in the United States brought to the tensions in international relations, cold war policy and arms race. This produced quantative development of military forces. This quantity "of development transforms itself into new quality": military force more and more becomes a new force over society.2) From the standpoint of theory, war, war relations, military preparations and production cannot be comprised into the sphere of social production and relations of production. War and military preparations belong to those social phenomena which are derived out of material base of society and belong to the sphere of superstructure. Armed forces, war technique, organization etc. are the products of the material base of society. Military power is component part of legal-political superstructure, but at the same time it represents its special form, which has relative independence towards "the social" base and legal-political superstructure", too. Military power is the materialized expression of political power in society and this fact makes relative independence of military power even more possible.3) Relative independence of military power towards the social base and political superstructure is expressed in the best way in the United States where the process of quantative development of military power reached its highest degree. This resulted in particular deformations in the relations of production: formation of a numerous military caste and deformations in the relations of distribution.4) Military caste, possessing immense parts of the national income and weapons of unbelievable destroying effects, becomes independent of the material base and political power in society.In economy, this independence of military power is expressed through its demands for increasing parts of national income without any regard to economic possibilities of country, and this directs whole economy towards war economy. In politics military power begins to function independently of the political power, whose integral part it is and to whom it should be subordinated. It can be stated that the military power has a decisive influence upon the USA policy. This influence is reflected in permanent support to cold war policy, tendencies to produce tensions in the international political situation, to destroy all the efforts towards disarmament, to prolong escalation of the war in Vietnam and eventually open new military privots etc. Independence of military power as separate power over society represents a danger not only to the USA, but the whole mankind. It can bring the world into1 the nuclear war whose consequnces are unpredictable.5) In the relations of distribution, large expenses for defense deform basic categories of distribution in capitalism: profit and wages. Taking great parts of profit and spending it for military goals, government more and more undermines basic capitalist institutions: private property and profit. As a result of large military expenses wages also become deformed expression of the labour power value. These deformations might be traced on decreasing of the wages under the value of the labour power by the income taxes, commerce taxes and inflatory tendencies. Under such conditions goverment is imposed to undertake regulations of the wages and not let them decrease as much as to have particular political and economic consequences. Thanks to this wages cease to be objective quantity determined by the market laws and become more and more deformed expression of the labour power value. Deformations in the relations of distribution in capitalism are also produced by the fact that in individual distribution military caste takes significant part of the national income determining itself disproportionately huge sallaries and different other privilegies.

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