The Peculiarity of Slavery: The Development Through Luxury (Model II of the Theory of Socio-Economic Formation)

Abstract

Model I of the non-Marxian theory of socio-economic formation takes into account what is common to all economic societies. That is why it does not explain the peculiarities of a given society (e.g., a slave or feudal society). Being built on a rather high level of abstraction the model is not able to explain, for instance, how it was possible that feudalism has transformed itself into capitalism. In order to show that the theory I am here trying to outline is also of some systematic relevance for understanding historical trends, I shall concretize the initial model of this theory. This is not an additional task to that of the critique of the Mandan theory of history. This is the latter task extended. To understand why Marx has failed in appointing the working class to be the destroying force of capitalism and the force for building socialism, it is necessary to make a concretization of Model I. And, what is more, the historical concretization of the model is one which goes along with the line of historical development.