Both liberalism and Marxism got it wrong

 "Marx’s principal insight is that the categories liberals use to construct their theory of political reality (liberty, equality, rights, and consent) are insufficient for understanding the political domain. They are insufficient because the liberal picture of the political world leaves out two phenomena that are, according to Marx, absolutely central to human political experience: the fact that people invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the fact that these classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one another, with the state itself functioning as an instrument of the oppressor class.” Paul Gottfried, Chronicles, April 2023

If this was the Marx view that “people invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the fact that these classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one another,” he got that part right, but he missed the fact that this comes from the biological origin of social behavior and not primarily from cultural or economic conditions. This error led to the wrong solutions to the problem.

But the solution is not to advocate for individualism which as far away from real human nature as saying culture or nurture are primarily the origin of social behavior. Human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

The hidden truths about human nature and natural law

Constitutions and moral truths need to rest on real natural rights according to real human nature. From there we can derive the set of preferences with which to start. Natural law, when including the biological origin of social behavior, tells us that we have a biology determined human nature. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do and be.

The best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Admitting this hidden truth about human nature and natural law will be very difficult because it admits ethnocentrism which is still widely thought of as evil.