“It has always seemed a singular anomaly that believers in the theory of evolution and in the natural development of institutions should be found laying down a theory of economics intended to be established, once and for all, by a logical deduction from axioms. This presupposes an identity of interest between different parts of a community which does not, in fact, exist. The existence of government, in which the more powerful interests are reflected in legislation, must tend to aid the survival of the fittest rather than the natural institutions of others which have competed unsuccessfully.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Could it be, therefore, that under a natural order the powerful and the weak have need of eachother, that a survival of the fittest is mere platitude of statists and the axiom which best defines economics is social cooperation? If so, can this axiom exist in communities which have replaced God with government?