Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong - Upgoat

Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong
submitted by Spaceman84 to Anthropology 2 yearsApr 20, 2022 21:44:26 ago (+9/-0) (aeon.co)
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-primitive-communism-is-as-seductive-as-it-is-wrong

Marx was one of the biggest assholes to ever walk the earth

But his assertion religion is the opiate of the masses was 100% true