Reply #122: What is Human Nature

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Self Interest, the insecurity of survival instincts, which manifests itself in will to power, if a society does not have the proper structures to curtail power from concentrating it cannot work. The marxist view (DSA types aside, at least that held by most of the orthodox) is that will the flaws in human nature are caused by capitalism, in reality I believe it is quite clear that the flaws in capitalism are caused by human nature (Do you also think Adam's Smith's society is equally as legitimate as Marx because he discounted the possibility that agrarian capitalism would turn into corporate oligopoly), the difference is that at least in (what is now called)a capitalist society there is enough plurality of ownership to create a model of countervailing power, under any Marxist conception of society power becomes too concentrated and leads to despotism.