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Re: means of production owned by a minority class

Posted by: TonyH ( UH, USA ) on July 12, 1997 at 13:21:47:

In Reply to: means of production owned by a minority class posted by Red Deathy on July 05, 1997 at 17:07:21:

> So thats why tribal societies are dead full of competition and rivalry, and
> have competition between cows milk producers? Or that pre-industrial
> pre-capitalist society in europe was co-operative. Human nature never changes.

I don't know which tribal societies you're thinking of, but the ones
I'm thinking of are indeed full of rivalry. I'm thinking of American Indian tribes, African tribes, South American Amazonian tribes. And in articles and documentaries I've seen and read about them, tribal life is fraught with much rivalry in the form of conflicts over wives/sex partners, food, clothes, possessions, machismo, etc. Tribal life is not the utopia you are making it out to be.

> (Ps. Socialism would abolish the government and money....)

Even tribal societies have government and money. Government in the form of elders and traditional tabus, and money in the form of food, clothes, or any other kind of wealth.




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