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| Richard A Kelo |
Rick Kelo, a prominent Classic Liberal thinker, weighs in on a common claim by advocates of government control of society. Socialists often claim that the human race begin in Socialism as its natural state. Socialists imply that because small tribes began as socialist that mankind should return to our natural, preferred method of organizing ourselves.
Surprisingly, Rick A Kelo agrees with the Socialists on this point: their claim is truthful. "Humans began as what economists call autistic economies, which is a term that refers to an economy where only 1 will governs. The tribal economy is an example, and so are the Crusoean economy, the slave economy & the household economy. They are all proto-command economies," says Kelo.
However, Rick Kelo notes that there is one crucial difference between the tribal economy and the Socialist economies of the 20th & 21st centuries: no division of labor. In a division of labor economy there are only two types of command economies that can exist:
1) Socialism: state control of production in a division of labor by state ownership of all producer / capital goods.
2) Fascism: state control of production in a division of labor by state regulation of all producer / capital goods
Richard Kelo goes on to point out that if we want to be technically specific Socialists are actually conflating communalism with communism, but the different is nuanced. Kelo briefly addressed the structure from tribal economy forward to advanced division of labor economy and this exact point in this article: Human Freedom: The Untold Cause of It All.
