philosophically, historical and economic theories

as a thought experiment, try this:

name the historical theory which guides our thoughts today?

Now to give that some context, we look at Marxism/communism…
in which an economic theory, communism, is give priority to
explain our current historical situation… hence, Marx
felt that the best way to explain history was through its
economics… he called economics the “substructure” of all history…
all events in history had as it basis, an economic basis… you want to
know what role has the monarchy played in history, Marx thought that
the basic understanding of the monarchy, was through economics…

His idea of class, that people organized themselves along the lines of economic
class… you have the workers being one class, the wealthy another class…
and this was how people under who they were… as a class, be it workers
or be it the wealthy…and so, he thought of the history of the monarchy, for example,
as a means of understanding the relationship between classes… the monarchy
was set up by the wealthy to protect their interest, that would be an Marxists theory
of history based upon economics…the king always, always came from the “higher”
wealthy class, never from the lower or working class…that is a fact…

so, think about our own theories of history, economics, philosophy, political,
what is the basis of our own theories?

so for example, tell me the current theory of history that we have, as American’s,
that explain the role and basis of our current historical situation?
what current historical theory explains our current situation in history?

Oh, I can’t think of any Kropotkin… and that my friends, is the point…
we don’t have any type of current theory that explains our
current historical situation…

we can’t use Marxist theory of history because we have rejected Marxism…
we can’t use capitalistic theory of history because there isn’t one,
we can’t use any economic theory to explain our current historical situation…
we also don’t have any historical theory to explain our current historical situation…

try as we might, we cannot use, for example, Spengler as an historical method
of understanding history… we have rejected that viewpoint… look him up, Oswald
Spengler…his book, “The Decline of the West” is an interesting abet at times, tedious
read…both volumes…or perhaps reading the tea leaves of history within
Globalism… or perhaps using the Hegelianism theory of history? perhaps under
the guise of the “right Hegelians” vs the “left Hegelians” or perhaps we can file history
under the “history of modernisation theory” or perhaps in terms of “nationalism?”

there are plenty of historical theories in which we can explain our current historical
situation, but really, do we have one that we hold, right now, that is true?
No, we lack any type of historical theory in which we can explain our current
historical situation…

and we seem to lack any type of economic theory in which we can explain
our current historical and economic situation…

the great failure of our times and why we are in so conflicted about
who we are and what is our point, is this lack of any type of theory
in which we can explain our current place, our current historical and economic
situation…

we don’t have any type of theory as to how we got here, past, what is our current status,
present and what it is we are aiming for, future…

during this century, we have had plenty of theories, which certainly explains
a lot, but can we use any of those theories to explain to ourselves, our past, present or
future? For example, we have, as theories, theories of consciousness (phenomenological)
theories of the unconsciousness, (psychoanalysis) theories of science, (theories of
relativity) and other scientific theories like (quantum mechanics)…

but do these theories also explain our current historical and economic situation?

nope, and they cannot do so as that is not their function…

we lack any type of historical/economic theory which we can use to explain what it means
to be human in this day and age…

we lack a past, and a present and a future, no wonder we are so lost and confused these days…

the various revolutions of the last 500 years, the scientific, religious, historical,
the industrial, the political and the philosophical, have removed all various
historical and economic theories that we have used in the past to explain our
current historical and economic understanding of the world…

perhaps, perhaps, we can use some form of scientific TOE, (theory of everything)
to explain our current historical and economic understanding of what it means to
be human, or perhaps not… I cannot know… perhaps there is no possible TOE in
science which means we cannot turn toward science to create a theory of history or
economics in which we can explain our current historical and economic situation…

we are lacking in any type of theories to explain what it means to be human in
our current historical and economic time period…

how are we to understand who we are if we can’t even produce any type
of theory to explain our current historical and economic selves?

Kropotkin