Instability, Inertia, Vitality

Implicit in the concept of Socialism as merely the resolution of the internal incoherence of Capitalism is the judgment of it as superior on the grounds of stability, not of Justice.  But, instability is not the only deficient mode of stability--inertia is another.  Thus, as events subsequent to Marx have tended to demonstrate, Socialism is no less susceptible to stagnation, e. g. Totalitarianism, than are other varieties of social organization.  Accordingly, instructive in those apparent limitations is that an optimum condition, as a mean between instability and inertia, is what can be called Vitality.