Pre-Marxist communism

Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, a vital influence on and precursor to Marxist communism.

While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined communism as a political movement, there were already similar ideas in the past which one could call communist experiments.[1] Marx himself saw primitive communism as the original hunter-gatherer state of humankind. Marx theorized that only after humanity was capable of producing surplus did private property develop.[2][3]

  1. ^ Perkins, Anne (2014). Trailblazers in Politics. New York: Rosen Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 9781477781449.
  2. ^ Marx, Karl (2004). "Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists". In Blunden, Andy (ed.). Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marxist Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Chambre, Henri; McLellan, David T. (24 March 2020). "Marxism/Analysis-of-society". Britannica. Britannica.com Inc. Retrieved 20 August 2021.