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·vor 12 Jahren·discuss
The important concept is surplus. People do the work to feed themselves, plus extra surplus effort to feed others. Obviously the tribe nurses children who can not feed themselves, and perhaps older parents too weak to feed themselves. Many class structures and relations of production possible in farming societies are not possible in a band of 50 or so continually travelling hunter-gatherers. We know some things about prehistoric bands, especially what things were impossible for them to do.
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·vor 12 Jahren·discuss
You're certainly correct, he invents ideas, puts them in Marx's mouth, then knocks them down.
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·vor 12 Jahren·discuss
> He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things.

Marx had very little interest in discussing property or things. He called focus on property and things "commodity fetishism". Marx talked about relations of production - relations between people.

> It's going to war with human behaviour.

All humans lived communistically from the time of cave paintings, Venus figurines, advanced tools etc. of 50,000 years ago, to 10,000 years ago.

Go back to the time of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE - Japan, Australia, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa etc. are all still communistic hunter-gatherer tribes. People in New Guinea were living in a more "advanced" mode of production then people living 200 kilometers north of modern Stockholm.

If there was some genetic component of humans which made the recognition of rented property, interest-lended money, profit-extracting capital etc. some innate human feature, then we wouldn't have to be repeatedly told that how production and relations of production organized themselves in the past two centuries is normal, and any changes to that are "against human nature". Unquestionable, repeated, "accepted wisdom" of man's nature has been part of propaganda models for millennia - centuries ago priests and reverends would be telling us it is obvious man is depraved, man is sinful, only saved by the grace of god etc. When considered, it's obviously nonsense.