> It's an elementary fact of anthropology that human societies for most of history have lived on a communal basis without property. Interesting. I've assumed t

> It's an elementary fact of anthropology that human societies for most of history have lived on a communal basis without property. Interesting. I've assumed that primitive communities were run from the top down with the alpha male effectively owning everything. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism But it states: > There is also no agreement among later scholars, including Marxists, on the historical extent, or longevity, of primitive communism.