Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Self-Sufficiency and Fellowship of Work

At Genesis 2:18, God says that "It is not good that man should be alone", and proceeds to create a woman that only later Adam calls Eve.  God thus violates the principle of 'creation in his image', since as monotheistic, he is alone.  Likewise, Individuation does not preclude the possibility of a complementary Association.  Hence, an instinct towards Self-Sufficiency is inherently insufficient to satisfy any instinct towards a Fellowship of Work.  Now, Smith somehow fails to recognize the latter when he overlooks that a Division of Labor presupposes an Organization of Labor.  Marx, too, overlooks that presupposition, as well as the possibility that Class Consciousness is derived from an instinct towards an Association of activity.  Accordingly, his concept of Socialism consists in a collectivization of Property, a passive condition, but not in a Fellowship of Work.  So, the latter remains unrepresented in the main Economic debates of the past several centuries, i. e. it is entailed by the goals of neither Wealth, Leisure, Self-Sufficiency, nor the abolition of Private Property, though it is commonly exemplified in some Co-ops.

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