Species and Political Philosophy

The primary aim of a Political Philosophy, whether Ancient or Modern, is to define the best mode of social organization.  Now, since, according to Marxism, Economic relations determine Political ones, Socialism is the basis of a Political Philosophy.  Thus, for Marx, Species-Being functions as a principle of organization, with the Species as the concrete Unity of the members of Human society.  However, as such, the Species is still partly abstract.  For, as is expressed in the familiar concept, 'the propagation of the species', the Human Species is determined by a principle that is independent of its mere function as the Unity of its individual members, a principle that, if Darwinism is correct, is itself profoundly significant.  In other words, the concept of Species entails a content that is a determinant in the mode of social organization that it effects, e. g. an Evolutionary factor.  Thus, the introduction of Species as a Political concept signals, regardless of Marx's ambitions, the possibility of development well beyond the achievements of unity and peace in Human society, which are the traditional goals of Political Philosophy.