Industry, Revolution, Evolution

An Evolutionist Economics is not a means to survival, to leisure, or to any of the means to those, including wealth, individual or collective. But an Evolutionist Economics is not a means to Evolution, either.  For, Production is a primary factor in Economics, and Production itself has been among the central loci of the development of Human history from Eden to the Moon.  That is, the Means of Production have evolved from rudimentary sewing and cooking, to mechanical machines, to internal combustion engines, to electrical motors, to digital devices.  But even these need to be produced, even as they replace human labor, requiring their own Means of Production and human labor, themselves evolving processes. Thus, Economics is not a means to Evolution, but one of its fundamental expressions.  Accordingly, an Industrial Revolution that fuels the emergences of Capitalism and Socialism, is, more accurately, an Industrial Evolution.