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Communion vs Agentic values

Most people confuse "capitalism" (a system of market economics that began to emerge as part of "classical liberalism" around the 1300s with the Hanseatic League and German Free Cities and Constitutional order as a replacement for Fealty Oaths) with the modern, managerial corporate-state.

With the industrial revolution, "capitalism" mutated into Laissez Faire and that was the last straw in terms of class inequality.

The values of pre-modern, pre-liberal, medieval, feudal, pre-Capitalist culture were oriented toward communion/conformism.

Modernity, classically liberal, Capitalist culture flipped that to agentic values, individual achievement (and scientific-technological innovation).

The rise of the professional-managerial class and the postmodern corporate-state was yet another flipping of values, back toward communion/conformism and away from agentic values (individual achievement, merit, modern rationalism).

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