Regardless of ruling factor or dogma, freedom and human potential are then halved as majorities become enclosed, dependent, robbed of refuge, right, and alternatives to the prevailing system. In short, natural independence and/or communal enfranchisement is not a condition which defines most wage-laboring majorities in this late-stage industrial age.
Societies free from the tyranny of one factor or another have become the exception and not the rule. Our challenge here is to comprehend the dire consequences of this factor imbalance condition and discover how we remedy a dismal dynamic - i.e., one emerging from the disenfranchised and dependent estate of the vast majority of mankind, the very conditions producing tyranny, exploitation, conflict, war, and ruin.
"The prehistory of society, the social organization existing previous to recorded history, was all but unknown. Since then, Haxthausen discovered common ownership of land in Russia, Maurer proved it to be the social foundation from which all Teutonic races started in history, and by and by village communities were found to be, or to have been the primitive form of society everywhere from India to Ireland.. With the dissolution of these primeval communities society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic classes."5
Friedrich Engels
"This original state of things, in which the labourer enjoyed the whole produce of his own labour, could not last beyond the first introduction of the appropriation of land and the accumulation of stock."6
Adam Smith
Enclosure's disenfranchisements and freedomless divisions of labor emerged with agricultural economy and patriarchal power structures – all serving to birth gender and factor tyrannies, and imperial aggression. Caught in post-edenic swings between gender, factor, and religious tyrannies man-kind has done little more than destroy its equilibrium, balance, enlightenment, environment, and natural freedom.
Rather than natural freedom, and equilibrium between market and cooperative forms, imperial tyrannies of one stripe or another have done little more than maintain the power and right of one way of life - thus halving liberty and enfranchisement in the process. As a result, we become fixated upon the victory of one system, property-rights scheme, and factor ideology over another... and therein lies our problem.
As imbalance begat imbalance, and enclosure begat enclosure, only the extremes of right and rationale change position and come to power. For true believers of either camp, a balance of socio-economic right and opportunity is anathema, and so a limiting of the liberty of the other gender, factor, or culture takes precedence over a balance of freedom, right, opportunity, and responsibility.
Exactly this "victory" of one factor or culture over another means another sorry round in our continuing, common, defeat. As the pendulum arcs to yet another extreme, capital's triumph is ever seen by ruling classes as natural, righteous, and inevitable. As history has proven time and again, however, our indulgence in such ideological, self-serving, tripe could hardly be more dangerous or counterproductive.
In the nature of things pendulums do not hang at the end of their arc, as if suspended at a gravity-defying extreme due to our belief in one dogma or another. In fact, the momentum being accumulated for a return arc soon leaves us helpless in its wake. To the extent of a swing in one direction or another, momentum pushes us toward yet another extreme as real progress, and potential for balance, are perpetually bypassed.
In this unending chaos of extremes, we have a tendency not to see, or ignore until too late, the nature of one-factor oligarchies destined to give birth to riot, ruin, repression, and revolution. To the extent we never learn, and endure social conditions in which most have no effective freedom from the "free market," we only repeat the folly of the past.
Whether or not the world will once again brew the seeds of its destruction now depends upon our ability to implement new-old enfranchisements and design essential, factor-power, parities into our affairs. In any event, it is essential to understand that no paradigm of factor balance should be construed as being synonymous with, or equivalent to, pursuit of an impossible equality of result - with regard to economic reward.
When and where it exists, freedom allows for natural, merit-oriented, inequalities to emerge... to an extent deemed fair and desirable by a majority via democratic process. Talent and initiative should thus be rewarded - provided, however, that compulsion, disenfranchisement, exploitation, and lack of effective democracy are not part of the market schema, and so the very reasons why the outsized and outrageous "merit-based" reward emerges.
The imperial doctrines of laissez-faire and totalitarian communism do not emerge from either a social vacuum or any edenic culture. In fact, these extremes of factor ideology were born amidst the very same cultural settings and historical circumstances. In recent times, both laissez-faire capitalisms and fascist socialisms are essentially, British-born, tyrannies emerging from a mother oligarchy, and between which we have fluctuated for centuries in post-enclosure, industrial-age, society.
Despite lofty ideals, each factor’s tyranny represents an attempt to secure a more efficient neo-slavery to benefit and protect a ruling class - regardless of whether it is aristocratic or bureaucratic in nature. As a rule, neither tyranny seeks to increase effective re-enfranchisement but, instead, to better their control over humanity.
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