Summary: All proposed alternatives to the current socio-economic model are failures due to the inability of these models to account for basic societal forces stemming from a general desire for the accumulation of material wealth. Often this is due to a myopic view of the present which does not succeed in tracing behavioral tendencies down to root causes.









The flaccid inefficacy of revolutionary movements in bringing about meaningful changes in public consciousness, or actual governance, is by this point in time glaring. Proponents of the alternative ‘-isms’ have become adept at pointing out superficial scapegoats, and have developed systems of classification that border on religious orthodoxy, while making no tangible progress towards their stated aims.





To give people advancing these views the benefit of the doubt, I would not suggest that their motivations are suspect. That the world contains massive inequities between the wealth of individual people is a fact without doubt, and further to say that people are not all full participatory members in the systems of governance that commands their lives is also not an exaggeration. Where the groups of people who would address these problems first err is in by not looking past their own small moments in time for what the cause of current imbalances is.



For the sake of simplicity, this argument will be contained to the western countries of classical heritage. That is, countries who all exist along a small spectrum of representative democratic governance, and mixed-capitalist economies.



It is that second part that seems to attract much of the rancor.



Without getting into definitions of capitalism, the actual feature of the current economic system that elicits strong emotions is the ability of some people to acquire more wealth than others, and the consequences that result when this happens. Inequality of wealth distribution, however, is not a feature exclusive to capitalism, and this myopic view of the causes of inequality dooms proposals for revolutionary alternatives by failing to identify root causes, and thereby not effectively addressing solutions to the problem.









Greed is the word most often bandied about, but to blame capitalism for greed is a simplistic fallacy. To tie greed together with terms such as oppression, is to fail to recognize that there is a single root cause that leads to any system of governance, and economic relationships that has so far existed in human history. And to isolate capitalism from other forms of governance



"A man does not know his own ADDRESS (in time) until he knows where his time and milieu stand in relation to other times and conditions" –Ezra Pound



Humans acquire wealth because they can. Any proposed system that seeks to upend this cultural trajectory cannot do so based on assumptions inherent human behavior that is not supported by evidence. The idea that by simply removing government individuals gain the power to treat with one another on fair terms ignores the fact that government was originally not something imposed from above, but willed into existence by people themselves.



The root of this situation is the emergence of one particular cultural trajectory that gained dominance across most of the world. It began over 11,000 years ago when ancient humans make the transition from nomadic to sedentary societies.