Philosophy of History, Political Philosophy, Vitality

One of Marx' important, albeit subsidiary, innovations is to recast Capitalism, a system, as a moment in History.  The possibility of that dual interpretation reflects that its object is both somewhat stable and somewhat unstable, and, so can be extended to the typically fixed objects of Political Philosophy, in general, thereby suggesting that the latter and Philosophy of History are two perspectives of one and the same phenomenon.  Thus, for example, one characteristic, and, not merely an accidental circumstance, of Hobbes' Leviathan is that it stabilizes the preceding 'war of all against all', the concept of which is inspired by the actual English Civil War.  Accordingly, thereby exposed as just as much a threat to Political organization as is instability, is, as has been previously discussed, stagnation as well, i. e. the possibility of rigidification, e. g. Totalitarianism, to which any system is susceptible.  Thus, insofar as Vitality constitutes a mean between instability and inertia in Historical development, it can also serve as a Political ideal.