Monday, September 19, 2016

Capitalism and Anarchy

The implied positive concepts of which anarchy and Anarchism are the negations are archy and Archism, respectively, hitherto non-addressed.  So, corresponding to the distinction, previously discussed, between the negatives, 'archy' is a social condition in which some rule obtains, while 'Archism' is the doctrine that asserts that some rule is better than no rule.  Now, a 'rule' is a human institution, as opposed to either a natural or a superhuman law.  But, Capitalism is conceived as fundamentally governed by either a natural law, i. e. the Law of Supply and Demand, or a superhuman law, i. e. the dictate of the Invisible Hand.  Thus, Capitalism is not archic, and any insistence that market activity not be interfered with is not Archistic.  In other words, Capitalism is anarchic, and the defense of it is often Anarchistic.

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