That undoubtedly owes much to the alternative on offer in Russia : the primitive Communism of Gennady Zyuganov, the defeated candidate.
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In Marx's model of socioeconomic structures, societies with primitive communism had no hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation.
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There is also no agreement among later scholars, including Marxists, on the historical extent, or longevity, of primitive communism.
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Theories to explain the apparent implied egalitarianism of Neolithic ( and Paleolithic ) societies have arisen, notably the Marxist concept of primitive communism.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that hunter-gatherer societies and some primitive agricultural societies were communal, and called this primitive communism.
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Classless modes of production in hunter-gatherer societies are referred to as " primitive communism " by Marxists to stress their classless nature.
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Marx, on his part, divided history into six stages _ primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and true communism.
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"It's about a kind primitive communism, " said director Mihai Maniutiu, a theme which still sells in Romania.
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If one is absent, the other tends to be absent as well " . ( See primitivism and primitive communism for a general discussion of these concepts ).
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:: Regardless of whether it's actually true, the idea that neolithic societies took the form of Primitive communism is fairly widespread and widely-taught.