Capitalism, Individuation, Pluralization

If contemporary rhetoric is any indication, the emergence of Capitalism qua promotion of the profits of an individual, from Smith's concept of it as a means to collective wealth, is based on the premise of the irreconcilability of Individual and Collective interests. However, even without reversion to a Dialectical resolution, the inadequacy of such reasoning is easy to diagnose. For, the process of Individuation presupposed in it is typically abstracted from initial conditions, which, when taken into account, transform it into Diversification, Instantiation, Pluralization, etc., any one of which can be attributed to a collective as a positive development. So, anti-Collectivist versions of Smith's original system, e. g. monopolies, sweat shops, Randism, etc., can each be likened to a branch falling from a tree, i. e. as degenerative, if not devitalizing.