
Abstract:
This paper examines and refutes the philosophical foundations of the modern Western order. It demonstrates that contemporary Western political, economic, and international institutions are grounded in three mutually reinforcing premises: consequentialism (outcome-based ethics), statism (comprehensive coercive control), and Darwinian anthropology (denial of human dignity and moral nature). Together, these form a coherent yet deeply flawed framework that normalizes domination, hierarchy, coercion, exploitation, and structural violence. These three pillars form an integrated system where each element strengthens and requires the others, producing what this paper identifies as the logic of domination—the systematic subordination of human beings to arbitrary power, manifested in domestic authoritarianism, economic exploitation, cultural engineering, international imperialism, and permanent warfare. This domination is unsustainable and inexorably leads to civilizational collapse. Against this mechanistic-animalistic paradigm, Africonomics presents a natural-moral law framework grounded in objective ethics, human dignity, and voluntary cooperation as a foundation for a structurally just, peaceful, and civilized order. The analysis concludes that civilizational flourishing is possible but requires philosophical reorientation, moral reconstruction, and institutional transformation.
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Manuel Tacanho
Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist; and the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute.
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