Monday, September 24, 2018

Cosmo-Economics, Capitalism, Socialism

Both Capitalism and Socialism have had Cosmo-Economic strains.  Current Globalism is an example of the former, and the 'Workers of the world unite!' slogan is an example of the latter.  However, neither has been successful in co-ordinating that theme with given entrenched Nationalism, e. g. the discontents of the EU and the adverse reaction to NAFTA, in the case of the former, and the break-up of the Soviet Union, in the latter.  Underlying these failures is a conceptual problem that neither doctrine can adequately address.  For, the relation between Nation and World is heterogeneous, i. e. neither can be reduced to each other, but Capitalism and Socialism are systematically constrained to offer only reductionist unifications of them.  Each is a variety of Atomism, either Analytic or Dialectical, so a World can be only either a manifold of Individuals or a Totality, respectively.  Hence, neither can accommodate a distinction that is intermediate between Individual and Totality.  In contrast, Organicism is a system that can and does preserve the distinction between Parts and Whole.  So, any Cosmo-Economics requires an Organicist model that, as is,  transcends both Capitalism and Socialism.

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