Friday, November 23, 2018

Capitalism, Marxism, Evolutionism

Smith's Economic model is apparently a self-contained universe, with its highest good--Wealth, its behavioral principle--Profit-maximization, and deity--the Invisible Hand, systematically interdependent.  Marx undermines the apparent opacity of the model by asserting that it is merely an hypostasized phase of an historical process, while implying a mutability of behavioral principle that corresponds to the mutability of social structure.  Now, the Evolutionist concept of History outstrips the Marxist one, i. e. conceives Human history as an episode in Natural history.  Accordingly, an Evolutionist concept of behavior outstrips the Marxist concept, i. e. Evolutionist Psychology supplants that of Marxism, as well as that of Capitalism.  Thus, insofar as Human history is, as has been previously discussed, a process of Species-Origination, i. e. leading to some novel species, adapting to a new environment, then three cardinal characteristics of the principle of human behavior are: it is species-grounded, it aims ultimately at the development of a new species, and its concept of that species entails an  environment, i. e. it is not Individualistic, Wealth is not its highest good, and it is not independent of the Natural world.  In other words, Evolutionism, more emphatically than Marxism, conceives Capitalism as obsolete, and, hence, entails a concept of Economics that outstrips both of them.

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