Friday, November 13, 2015

Socialism, Second Nature, Technology

Since what Human Nature is has long been in dispute, so, too, is what a Second Nature constitutes unsettled.  However, since the use of tools is unarguably an acquired activity, it seems difficult to deny that Technology is part of any Second Nature of Humans.  Now, according to Marx, Technology is what differentiates the Human species from all others.  Thus, Marxist Socialism is a Second Nature doctrine.  In contrast, Capitalism is not, not so much because Technology is not an essential factor in it, but because one of its essential features, the Invisible Hand, is conceived as independent of Human artifice.  Furthermore, that concept of Socialism functions as a means to the organization of society.  Hence, it is part of the Technology that constructs that organization, not a mere Nominalist characterization of it.

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