article (C-1-a) Criticism of shareholder and Marxist discourse on the processes of acquisition and enrichment[article (C-1-a) Critique des discours actionnarial et marxiste sur les procédés d’acquisition et d'enrichissement]

The first characteristic of the capitalist is his objective of monetary accumulation. For this purpose, the first thing to be done is the acquisition of the means of production (which are then profit-making). The second characteristic of capitalism are the rules, the ways of acquiring its means of production for profit. The first characteristic leads to the exploitation of workers, a subject which has been widely studied. The second characteristic leads to the increasing concentration of wealth, a concentration which has been widely observed without considering the rules of acquisition which are the cause, as if they were self-evident. This characteristic also ensures the monopoly of acquisition of the shareholders and thus the wage relationship of subordination to the shareholders, a relationship which considerably facilitates the exploitation of employees. F. Lordon writes nothing else : "Bourgeois democracy is that regime in which one can speak of everything except that which asserts the social power of the bourgeoisie - namely, in the last instance, the private ownership of the means of production, and the particular form of enrollment which it determines: the wage-labour force. With regard to this article, we complete this assertion with other assertions in order to show the aporia of contemporary discourses, including Marxist ones, and to base our proposals for evolution: (1-) "what asserts the social power of the bourgeoisie" is "the private property of the means of production", (2-) what currently founds this ownership is the so-called contribution to these means of the owner-capitalists, only them, and the complete hiding of the contribution of the labour community of the enterprise, which explains the monopoly of acquisition by the capitalist. (3-) the particular form of enrolment determined by the capitalist, because of his exclusive ownership of the means of production, is the wage-labour force. (4-) the taking into account of all the contributions leads to the majority acquisition of the means of production by the labour community, which will enable it to determine other forms of enlistment than the present wage-labour force. It is the purpose of this article (C-1-a) Critique of shareholder and Marxist discourses on acquisition and enrichment processes to present the actual acquisition processes, to discuss the very similar discourses of shareholder and Marxist on these processes and the impact of all these discourses on future developments, the object of article (C-1-b) Acquisition of the means of production is a quick recall of the rules of acquisition and mainly a proposal of evolution, and the object of article (C-1-c) Financial logic vs. productive logic is to well characterize in the production processes the logic of production and the financial logic. More precisely, this article (1-) distinguishes the two stakeholders in this production when it is for profit, namely the shareholders and the work community of the company, (2-) distinguishes the "means of production" and the "goods and services" produced and made available thanks to these means, (3-) presents some acquisition processes showing the poor contribution of the shareholder who is nevertheless the sole owner, (4-) explains the juridical artifice allowing this, (5-) discusses some discourses about the profitability of capital, (6-) discusses some writings of Marx and Marxists to show the lack of coherence in their discourses about the rules of acquisition of the means of production and the role of the labour community, (7-) considers some proposed evolutions with regard to all these writings and our analysis.