Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economic (JOCRISE)
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2023): Critical Realism of Moral-Material Complementarities

Psychopathy Incorporated

Koenraad Priels (Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)



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Publish Date
21 Jul 2023

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative structural analysis of capitalism and demonstrate that it needs to be defined as a “psychopathic system.” Its inherent structural dynamics violently centralize and concentrate wealth and ideological and political power in the hands of a “psychopathic ruling class” with callous disregard for the resulting socio-ecological destruction. For epistemological clarity and clinical, criminological accuracy, global capitalism should be defined as “Psychopathy Incorporated.” Critical realism becomes a discipline of humane self-defense against psychopathy in power. Perpetuating capitalism proves to be demonstrably clinically and criminally insane. From a rational, humanitarian perspective, the radical solutions to our contemporary predicament are to fully acknowledge the trans-historical problem of psychopathy in power, criminalize capitalism and humanize socio-economic structures.

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JOCRISE

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Religion Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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The objective of JOCRISE as a scholarly bedrock of critical thinking in socio-economic issues and problems comprises abstraction derived from the ontological premise and mapped into the continuum of the socio-economic learning system by the ontological being and becoming of logical formalism. ...