Thanks for your reply! The back-cover text of the book I linked explicitly says the same, but with a strong reversal of causation. Roughly translated and summ

Thanks for your reply! The back-cover text of the book I linked explicitly says the same, but with a strong reversal of causation. Roughly translated and summarized, it says: "Genuinely egalitarian societies must be small and tight-knit". It kind of ties egalitarianism to hunter-gatherer tribes, and even doubts the possibility of egalitarianism in industrialized (and even agriculture-driven) socieities. I'm not here to replicate this claim, the book's contents are of course more nuanced that my summary of the cover text. I think it even quotes Kelly, but I'd have to move my fat ass to the shelve and look up the appendix to confirm this. It discusses many different works about pre-modern societies.