Many ancient and indigenous societies were able to function very efficiently with a communist government, I don’t see why Laos, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela’s attempts have been so terrible in the way that they are completely authoritarian. The Iroquois Nations’s democratic government was basically the foundation of the US’s democratic government, and they were also a communist society. So I see many examples of primitive communism being able to function. I even found out about an Indian state called Perula that is also a successful comminist state. I don’t see why we can’t make communism and socialism work out in countries like Laos, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela. Forgive me if anything I said is wrong.
The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State is essential reading. Matrilineal primitive communism was defeated by the emergence of agriculture and the division of specialized labor and alienable property and inheritance. Whereas once the tribe lived together and worked together (my sister’s child is my child) we began to specialize into classes and ascribe private ownership to parcels of land and then animals and then tools and then conquered people to work those lands and animals and tools.
We can’t turn back the clock and uncivilize the world back into that time before the emergence of monogamy and property and the state, because now there is a ruling class that must be defeated. How do you propose we defeat them without so-called “authoritarianism”?
Laos, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela’s attempts are made under imperialist siege. Never forget this.