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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]
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- ^ Marx, Karl (2004). "Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists". In Blunden, Andy (ed.). Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marxist Internet Archive.
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