Form, Matter, System

This solar system consists in the Sun and 8 or 9 planets organized in a certain manner.  In traditional Logical terms, the Sun and planets are its Matter, and the manner of their organization, e. g. gravitational relations, are its Form, a pairing that for Plato was also Ontological and Epistemological.  So, a 'System' can be defined as a combination of Form and Matter, with the latter two mutually independent, but complementary.  Thus, Atomism, as Matter without Form, is not a System, and Nominalism, as excluding Form, is inadequate as a Semantics of Systems.  Now, Capitalism is barely a System, with its only Formal principle the vague Invisible Hand.  In contrast, Marxism entails a more emphatic Formal principle--History--but is otherwise as Materialist, in this sense, as is Capitalism, with its group terms, e. g. Class, Society, etc. essentially Nominalistic.  But, in sharper contrast with both Systems, the concept of Species entails a more influential Formal principle, manifested in both reproductive processes, and in the capacity of its members to communicate, neither of which is adequately grounded in either Capitalism or Socialism.  That is, both reproduction and communication are adjuncts to individuals in both those Systems, and, hence, are in them contingent Materialist properties, rather than Formal principles independent of those individuals.