| | Good article; capitalism is for sure a consequence of the principle of free association, applied to commerce.
The other alternatives are all examples of forced association of some kind, and demand some emperors in the model somewhere.
The other alternatives boil down to creative answers to the question "How do we put the most able in the tribe in servitiude to the rest independent of their willing participation?"
When I phrase the question that way, perhaps it isn't purely a response to atavistic slowly fading genes; perhaps modernity itself accelerates this divide. As modernity becomes more complex, increasingly the tribe finds itself dependent on the inscrutable math of others. That feeling of hopeless dependency has pushed some into creative modes of political enslavement; how do we place those we depend on onto a leash, with master at one end and slave at the other, because our existence can't possibly depend on the whims of those we claim we depend upon.
And so, a leash is demanded...by the existentially terrified -- who justify their ethics purely on their existential terror.
Hitler was an example, clearly driven by his existential terror and the hunger of his childhood. And his ultimate terror driven solution was something called National Socialism.
The special nature of National Socialism is exactly its National nature-- that can only be implemented by forced association on a national scale. Socialism in a free nation is a group of like minded folks starting a commune in Vermont. More power to them. National Socialism is the same whim shoved down the nation's throat 51% to 49%, and that is the distinguishing difference between Socialism and National Socialism.
Our own National Socialists need to wear that brown shirt, because it is an indelible charachteristic of their national campaign to implement America's National
Socialism; forced association.
That is not a characteristic of capitalism; a capitalist America could easily survive with a socialist Vermont (and open borders, so people were -free- to vote with their feet and prove the lie.)
It is a fundamental aspect of national socialism that it is anathema to freedom; it can't exist in a free nation, it could only exist in a nation that had it shoved down its throat 51% to 49%.
The Bad Idea cannot exist in a world with at least one truly free nation; they couldn't build the walls high enough.
That is why what was once an external political struggle has long ago transformed into an internal political struggle. American internal politics is now the last battleground of freedom. The other bootlickers have long caved.
(Edited by Fred Bartlett on 4/14, 6:46am)
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