Friday, February 21, 2020

National Capitalism, Global Capitalism, Organicism

The implications of Extraterrestrial travel for Evolutionism are far from of contemporary Philosophical concern.  More immediate is the tension between Nationalist Economics and Globalist Economics, exemplified by the recent Brexit, but just as instantiated by NAFTA.  These are products of a contradiction of Capitalism that neither Smith nor Marx addresses.  Initially, the scope for Smith of the Free Market is inter-National, as a counter to intra-National protectionism.  But he eventually extends the concept to the National Market, without considering the potential for National ill-effects, e. g. the loss of domestic jobs when cheaper Labor is available elsewhere.  Socialist protectionism is no better than Capitalist protectionist, closing off access to inter-National markets.  What's needed is an Organic Global model, which breaks down rigid National barriers, and replaces the concept of relative locality with that of a part of a whole.  In this way, Free Trade is at the service of the Whole, a model that is plainly far from any of those inefficient ones that are currently extent.

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