Pro-Capitalist

Jordan Peterson favors capitalism because it generates wealth for all people, and is making all people richer everywhere, and Marxism cannot compete with this marvelous economic machine. Peterson is also pro-liberty and pro-individualism, and those views are best expressed under a free market economy. In that Dutch VPRO documentary in 2019, Peterson denied that hierarchical structures are social constructs. The structures of Western society are not social constructs. This is untrue. Humans are evolved from lobsters and both creatures have lived with hierarchies for 350 million years. Hierarchies are an inevitable evolutionary framework for organizing society and our lives. Capitalism is but one expression of this ancient need to arrange things in hierarchical ways. Capitalism then is not a social construct, and nor are Western hierarchy a sign of the corrupt male patriarchy. Jordan has a point but elsewhere I have commented at length about my objection to how he sees us as living within inevitably formed hierarchies.