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  1. Primitive communism

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    Primitive communism is a way of describing the gift economies of hunter-gatherers throughout history, where resources and property hunted or gathered are shared with all members of a group in accordance with individual needs. In political sociology and anthropology, it is also a concept, that describes hunter-gatherer societies as traditionally being based on egalitarian social relations and common ownership. A primary inspiration for both Marx and Engels were Lewis H. Morgan's descriptions of "communism in living" as practised by the Haudenosaunee of North America. In Marx's model of socioeconomic structures, societies with primitive communism had no hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation. The idea has been criticised by anthropologists as too ethnocentrically European a model to be applied to other societies, whilst also romanticising non European societies. Wikipedia

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  2. Even ancient Buddhist texts described a pre-state society free of property. But The Origin is the idea's most important codification. It argued for primitive communism, circulated it widely, and welded it to Marxist principles. Today, many writers and academics still treat primitive communism as a historical fact.
  3. Marx's idea that societies what naturally egalitarian press communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong. ... Primitive communist Marx's thought that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before bewirtschaftung is widespread influential and completely wrong.
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    The original idea of primitive communism is rooted in the idea of the noble savage present in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau [4] and the early anthropological work of Morgan and Ely S. Parker. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Engels was the first to write about primitive communism in detail, with the 1884 publication of The Origin of the Family, Private ...
  5. conversableeconomist.com

    Manvir Singh describes the evidence in "Primitive communism: Marx's idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong" (Aeon, April 19, ... If a century and a half of research on humanity has taught us anything, it is to be sceptical of the seductive. From race science to the ...
  6. The document discusses the idea of 'primitive communism' proposed by Marx and Engels, which argued that early human societies before the development of agriculture were naturally egalitarian and communal. It summarizes an anthropologist's fieldwork that challenges this view by showing that two hunter-gatherer groups he studied, the Aché and Hiwi, exhibited different practices around food ...
  7. Marx did idealise primitive societies in a way that wasn't true, however he did not think that 'so called 'primitive communism' was a recipe for modern communism. What he thought was that history had a tendency to develop though stages from Primitive communism at the beginning through to communism at the end.
  8. indiana.forums.rivals.com

    It is pretty widely assumed that pre-agricultural societies were communal in sharing food, etc. I remember reading The Origin of the Family at IU in a freshman honors Great Books course and we all took it for granted (including the prof). This article (long but well written) details field...
  9. The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong | Aeon Essays. aeon.co. Karl Marx died on 14 March 1883. At the funeral three days later, Friedrich Engels wasted little time on their 40-year friendship, focusing instead on Marx's legacy. 'Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature,' Engels said ...
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