Capitalism, Socialism, Collectivism

Smith does not explain the relation between the Profit-motive and Division of Labor.  Presumably, he believes that they are consistent insofar as involvement in the latter is a means to one's profiting.  However, that leaves unclarified the proper treatment of one's co-workers.  Nor does Marx seize upon the point that a collective consciousness might be developed in the context of working with others, instead focusing on the harm done to a person by specialization.  But, perhaps surprisingly, it is Hegel who conceives work relations Dialectically, and, so, posits that Self-Interest develops via that Logic into a General Will, i. e. that the promotion of one's own well-being is that of all others, as well.  Thus, Marx' 'From each according to one's ability', implicit in which is a Collective context, has more in common with Philosophy of Right than the Germany Ideology.  Still, that derivation shares Atomist premises with Smith's doctrine, i. e. that one begins as independent of others, with the difference that Capitalist Atoms remain mutually independent, while Dialectical ones interpenetrate.  Now, more sharply contrasting with those premises is either Holistic Collectivism, according to which the Whole precedes its Parts, or Organicist Collectivism, according to which the Whole and its Parts are coeval.  Still, any of these varieties of Collectivism grounds a Moral alternative to the Egoism that is the behavioral foundation of Capitalism.