Chris Hedges makes a reference to Karl Marx having noted older forms of human commune. I would like to point out that the difference between a pre-colonial commune in Bengal and the North American tribe is that Bengal always had regional and international trade and commerce whereas Native American tribes in the interior hardly had any manufacturing or international commerce.
<< "The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx" is a series of observations derived from Marx's reading of works by historians and anthropologists. He took notes about the traditions, practices, social structure, economic systems and beliefs of numerous indigenous cultures targeted for destruction. Marx noted arcane details about the formation of Native American society, but also that "lands [were] owned by the tribes in common, while tenement-houses [were] owned jointly by their occupants." He wrote of the Aztecs, "Commune tenure of lands; Life in large households composed of a number of related families." He went on, "… reasons for believing they practiced communism in living in the household." Native Americans, especially the Iroquois, provided the governing model for the union of the American colonies, and also proved vital to Marx and Engel's vision of communism. >>
Please read the rest of the article by Chris Hedges with the non-European model of capitalism
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Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Hedges writes: "The quest by a bankrupt elite in the final days of empire to accumulate greater and greater wealth, as Karl Marx observed, is modern society's version of primitive fetishism."
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