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What is the major discovery of the book 'From Capital to Reason'?

There are three:1. Defining what a human being is, on scientific grounds.2. Proposing a credible alternative to capitalism.3. Demonstrating that any credible system of organization necessarily relies on the regulation of the decision-making process.

Defining what a human being is, on scientific grounds

From antiquity until today, politicians and philosophers have been content with a merely plausible representation of the human being, based on introspection, and not corroborated by reproducible experiments in line with the scientific method.This means they tried to address the subject without even defining it correctly, and this explains why their solutions work so poorly: they are based on a non-realistic representation of human nature.

Proposing a credible alternative to capitalism

The communism or the participatory democracy are not such alternatives.Why? Because they are based on an idealized representation of humans.

Demonstrating that any credible system of organization necessarily relies on the regulation of the decision-making process

By credible system of organization, we mean a system able to answer the two major questions of our time, namely how to meet the ecological constraint, and how to stop the slow degradation of the social fabric that inevitably leads us toward the next collective tragedy (e.g., a civil war).

Previous systems, past and present, focus on 'who makes the decisions?', whereas the right question should be 'how should decisions be made?'.See the question 'What is modern political methodology?'

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Read the book From Capital to Reason in its entirety.Defining what a human being is is the central subject of the first part of the book.Proposing a credible alternative to capitalism is the subject of the second part.