[-empyre-] a book, dna and code

[Nicholas Ruiz III]

Therein lies the precise distinction, between
'capitalization' (making the environment useful)--and
'capitalism'--a human sociopolitical system.

The latter is but a sociopolitical modulation of the
former.  It is not identical with it.  All living
things sequester and utilize the environment--they
capitalize upon it.  Only humans seem capable of
juridically modulating it for better or worse human
sociopolitical circumstances.

NRIII


--- "sdv at krokodile.co.uk" <sdv at krokodile.co.uk> wrote:

> nick,
> 
> All living things do not capitalize.
> 
> This would imply that all human and non-human
> societies were capitalist, 
>    which is a strange restrictive understanding of
> the variations of 
> human and non-human societies.
> 
> I have noticed an increasing tendency to accept this
> liberal line of 
> thought but  rarely is the proposition actually
> presented. (Though I 
> think we probably have before).
> 
> steve
> 
> 
> > What is your definition of capital?  I would say
> that
> > for organic life, yes, capitalization is
> > inevitable--but this does not sanction any
> particular
> > style of politics, what you probably call 
> > 'capitalism.'  In fact, all critiques of
> capitalism,
> > are really critiques of politics, because all
> living
> > things capitalize. Only the climate--geographical
> and
> > social, varies... 
> > 
> 
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