MARX AND HUMAN NATURE.
Preamble: Technically speaking, I’m a genius by every known measure. But that doesn’t covey omniscience or omnicompetence. But it does mean I can entertain myself by slumming with you common folk, now and then. ;). With that out of the way, let’s get on with Mr. Marx.
MARX ON HUMAN NATURE
Marx just repeated Feuerbach, by claiming that human nature was predominantly socially constructed. Which like every other pseudoscientific fraud Marx attempted to impose on us, we know is false, since we understand the origin of human behavior as the sex differences, the genetics of class differences (lower class genetic load), the race differences (neoteny, and pre-neotenic genetic load), and that civilizational differences were the result of about eight or so local environmental influences, and social differences the result of economies possible under that strategy, at present levels of technology, and with present levels of trade.
ORIGINS OF INSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENCES
Unfortunately, the path dependence of institutional formation anchors on the first institution, so religion first, state first, contract (law) first, civilizations are stuck from their origins and slow, medium, and fast rates of adaptation, which explains the rates of development of different (primary) civilizations: Africa > MENA > India > China > Europe.
MARX’S DECEPTIONS
Marx’s strategy, and one of deception, was to create the pretense that society consists of interpersonal debts as do families, so that he could argue that members of a society are somehow obligated to one another, instead of a collection of families clans tribes, classes and sometimes nations, that cooperated for common interest despite that they had no obligations to one another as do families, because only relations do and only relations need to practice kin preference and kin selection.
This deception mirrors is his other deception: the labor theory of value instead of, as we understand, marginalism and subjective value. In fact labor has almost no value (as we have seen) since the value is almost entirely created by the organization of speculation, inputs, production, outputs, sale, distribution, and transaction.
If we go through Marx, we see consistency in the effort of trying to create parasitic relations out of voluntarily cooperative relations. There are cultural reasons for the difference between Jewish diasporic traditions, and European territorial traditions. Since we are unaware of these differences we assume they are natural to mankind rather than accidents of history that merely modify our relations despite human nature.
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