Theoretical Architecture / Topic VI of VI
Socialism
Socialism is the idea of a perfect society guided by an impossible and false ideal. This ideal is shaped by a dyadic mode of thought that imagines society as an overarching subject capable of action.
Neoclassical equilibrium models, too, can be read as an economic formulation of such an ideal: the diversity of social relations appears in them as an optimization problem that can be solved simultaneously. This approach refuses to acknowledge that the social synthesis of independent actors must be based on exchange and money.
Key Propositions
Society is not an overarching planning subject.
The ideal of simultaneous overall optimization fails to capture the reality of society as an emergent, open and dynamic formation.
A catallactic order emerges from relations among autonomous actors.