Scarcity

[Forstater, Mathew]

To add to Charles, see also Lawrence Krader's (ed.) _The Ethnological Notebooks
of Karl Marx_. In addition to Morgan, Marx also studied Phear, Maine, and
Lubbock.  The field of Marxist anthropology is an extremely important section of
Marxist studies, and not just--or, perhaps, not even most importantly--for the
study of 'pre-capitalist' formations, but for the study of capitalism itself, as
well as the possibilities for post-capitalism.
If you notice, Engels added a footnote on this issue to the first sentence of
the Communist Manifesto main text, confining its content to written history as
follows:

Charles wrote:

 Marx also substantially approved of Lewis Henry Morgan' work , which made the
same distinction as Sahlins does between kinbased societies ( societas) and
terrirtory based societies ( civitas). Also, Marx and Engels are famous for
seeing "primitive communism" as future communism with lower technique ( and at a
different level of the spiral).