Sunday, June 3, 2018

Distributed Property and Division of Labor

As has been previously discussed, Private Property is not to be confused with Distributive Property.  Now, Distributive Property corresponds to Division of Labor--each presupposes a Whole that has been differentiated.  Thus, in the German Ideology, Marx erroneously equates Private Property and Division of Labor--one an Atomist concept, the other, Holist.  The error is rooted in the fundamental Atomism of Marxism, which, even if Dialectical, has Atoms as its foundation, as his Dissertation expresses.  That orientation becomes clear when contrasted with Evolutionism, for example, according to which a Species either precedes or is contemporaneous with its members.  Dialectical Materialism may end with social cohesion, but implicit in both its methodology and its concept of History, at the outset, Humans are as isolated from one another as in most non-Socialist doctrines.

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