Pre-historic human societies

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Nov 20 14:46:15 PST 2001


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 brettk at unicacorp.com wrote:


> Our foraging ancestors achieved a socialist society several millenia before
> the idea of capitalism had entered anyone's head. These societies were
> marketless, stateless, and egalitarian.

There's nothing wrong with markets per se, just like there's nothing wrong with exchange per se. Socialism means freedom from hunger, misery, Stone Age dentistry, childbirth without anaesthesia, and countless other horrors; a freedom to, rather than freedom from.

-- Dennis



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