The issues I have with dualism are the same as the issues I have with straight lines. Straight lines resolve nothing unless attached to the manufactured rounding of curves which a Trinity accomplishes for those who might not yet be brain dead. Dualism itself is the therapeutic equivalent of this Trinity or Dialectic in thinking. All along the assumption that a straight line is going somewhere is the error. The value of a straight line is to organize thought into something like a line of books on a shelf.
So let's talk about Werner Sombart, an economist, historian and sociologist, mostly an historicist, who died in 1941, whose more radical ideas prevented him from finding work in Germany's elite post World War One academic institutions until the Nazi took over. Sombart had actually read Das Kapital, and according to the likes of Engel et al, Sombart was one of the few Germans who had actually understood Marx's Critique of Political Economy.
Sombart was the first man of letters to coin the phrase "Late Stage Capitalism." He had ideas about the role Jews played in the social movement that began with the spirit of feudalism that became early capitalism. He saw this social movement as an "in this together" which ended with the Industrial Revolution and with the increasing dominance of an isolating spirit in society that lost touch with "in this together." Late Stage Capitalism for Sombart was a new spirit, a reuniting of the "in this together" that produced amongst other things, pogroms of Jewish people and anyone else who failed to share the same understanding of a power higher than the higher power of sect or of an individual. For Sombart National Socialism was a revival, a new spirit of the commitments between people which had supported the feudal world for a very long time.
My own view on this area of thinking wanders back through the generations to Plato's Ideal Forms and the intensity with which the western mind has clung to them while ignoring the role Socrates played in Plato's playground. With respect to capital as a moral understanding, both Ricardo and Adam Smith erected an ideal form upon which Capital as in Kapital was builded here from Freiberg to Yale, via, Rome, Paris, Chicago and Oxford
That Ideal Form was the beginning of a straight line called the "Free Market." There is no grand unified thinking for us people. What we have is useful lines that go nowhere. The Free Market is nothing more than yet another straight line, it has nothing to do with the reality of something like an Azalea
