Capitalism and Analytic Philosophy

Though having achieved Political indepence from Britain more than two centuries ago, the U. S. remains under its ideological influence.  By continuing to subscribe to Capitalism, it takes for granted some of the premises that inform the tradition of which Smith's model is an outgrowth, notably that members of a society are fundamently isolated from one another, and that the behavior of each is motivated by a self-interested feeling that is perhaps in conflict with a sympathetic one.  Accordingly, a possibility posited from outside that tradition, such as that one can be elevated by Reason above one's feelings to an impersonal standpoint, is virtually unthinkable in contemprary American life.  Now, a second influence of British ideology can be found pervasively in American Academic Philosophy--Russellian Analytic Philosophy.  For, while its proponents insist that their methodology is value-neutral, its Atomism prejudices any analysis of human activity that is based on Collectivist principles, e. g. Rousseau's General Will, i. e.which Analytic Philosophy can interpret only as an aggregate of Egoisms.  So, many of these Academicians propagate Russell's Capitalism-friendly Theory, wittingly, or otherwise.