W. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell make a compelling case that socialist markets can be more efficient and more economical than capitalist markets. If the key to transcendent social solidarity is, in fact, interactionally rich and informationally relevant interaction, then one begins to look around, in, and over market relationships toward parallel institutions. Non-Economic Sources of Solidarity. Religious communities next present themselves as candidate for transcendent social solidarity which encompasses and mediates market dynamics. Most religious traditions promote a fairly intense solidarity within any given set of believers but fail miserably when dealing with competing religious groups.
Ecumenical efforts show some minimal success but exploitation and conflict remain.
The Aging of America has some interesting potential for meta-solidarity. In recent years, since 1950, Economic Blocs may extend some limited economic and political solidarity and thus transcend the nation-state. The World Court and other trans-national legal instruments may work on behalf of a larger clientele than do courts at local and national levels. The State and the Law. Politicians, East and West, seem to conflate the social power of a society with their own private circle and their own purse.