Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Species-Being and Nature-Being
Though the separation of Individual from Species is antithetical to Marxist Socialism, acceptance of the concept of Species-Being potentially poses a stronger challenge to the doctrine. For, insofar as it is difficult to deny that the human species is part of Nature, it is difficult to deny that Species-Being is determined by Nature-Being. Thus, if Nature-Being is, for example, as Darwin conceives it, then human Species-Being for each member consists in the promotion a new, more evolved, species. But, none of the various Marxist arguments for Socialism is on the basis that it is a means to the next evolutionary step, i. e. there is no demonstration that the Marxist concept of Species-Being is consistent with the concept of Nature-Being that has prevailed in the past century and a half. Its concept of Socialism is similarly vulnerable to most other concepts of Nature-Being.
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