Tag: Hunter-gatherer

  • The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics

    The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics

    Orientation: Anthropological confirmation of primitive communism When Marx and Engels proclaimed that the first human societies practiced ”primitive communism” they hardly had much company. In the first half of the 20th century two exceptions were the archeologist V. Gordon Childe and later on the anthropologist Leslie White. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s […]

  • The Collective Creativity of Workers, Part II

    The Collective Creativity of Workers, Part II

    Orientation Summing up Part I My purpose in this two-part article is to show how creativity can be understood not only at the micro level of the individual artist, but also at the macro level of world history. I began in Part I by describing the ways in which the individual artist is different from […]

  • Why Marxists Need Darwin

    Why Marxists Need Darwin

    Orientation Most people who call themselves Marxists will tip their hat to Darwin and then move on. They laude his theory of natural selection for why species go extinct. They will support his gradualist theory that change is slow in the biological world. Of course, they will celebrate how humans evolved from the ape line […]

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