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Thanks for the context. In response to Wilson, I’d argue that Marx’s work provides a better analytical framework for understanding government than Darwin thoug

Thanks for the context. In response to Wilson, I’d argue that Marx’s work provides a better analytical framework for understanding government than Darwin though. (;

dredmorbius 6y ago
Marx is closer to Darwin (evolutionary system) than Newton (mechanistic) in this context. Marx is also responding to social Darwinism, notably Malthus and Spencer. For the latter, the insistance that all behaviour and selection occurs at the level of the individual rather than larger aggregates (family, community, tribe, population). Which is widely seen now as a very incomplete model. Though it's similarly possible to go wrong in invalid group-assimilation theory as with tribalism and nationalism's more sinister variants. What specifically do you draw from Marx?