As we have established earlier, all units of matter (nnw) have life spans.  Although a unit's life span may be influenced by external conditions, if allowed to go through all of its life cycles internal elements ultimately determine the law governed rate of metabolism within the particular unit. 

Societies are socially reproduced living organisms which have specific life spans, contain internal modes of production, size dimensions, forms of cultural expression, and rates of metabolism.  Communalism, practiced by homo sapiens sapiens, as an evolving society lasted for approximately 200,000 years, planned hydrualic communalism 8,000, White slavery 3000, feudalism 1500, capitalism 300+ and socialism 73+.  Each society was superseded by one that was more adaptable to different production regions and regimes.

More significant, however, is the fact that each society's life span has been shorter than the one before it.  We can infer therefore that the metabolism rate for the decomposition of technological means and the social scaffold surrounding them accelerates with each revolutionization of the means of production. With each qualitative advance in the method, magnitude, volume and output of social production the time frame of which each formation goes from crib to grave and from grave to crib is abbreviated.  This is an extremely important inference, given the accelerated development of advanced technology in the latter half of the 20th century and the rapidity with which socialism (the Neanderthal, or side branch of production modes), a mere 73 year old variant of the Industrial Revolution, has crumbled in the face of mounting economic pressures of distribution.