Slavery was brought on by the advent of agriculture, 12,000 years ago. Humans (homo sapiens) have existed for 300,000 years. 12,000/300,000x100=
4% of our species existence
Capitalism itself has only existed for about 300 years, a figure so trivial it isn’t even worth calculating.
It gets really murky depending on what the definition of human is, which isn’t easy to answer. Tool-using hominids have been around for ~3M years, and fire-cookers for ~1.5M years.
This is true
and that’s an overestimate when including various indigenous societies
Slight correction, I believe class conflict is brought upon by surplus, which happens to be caused by agriculture a vast majority of the time
Yes, but the neolithic / agricultural revolution, where we can definitely say that class society started arising, is 10k BCE. Tool using humans have been around for like ~3M years, so class society makes up about ~0.4% of human history.
Agreed, just a small nitpick. There were only a handful of non-agricultural class societies and they were all quite small, but I think its quite interesting and still corrobates a lot of the fundamental ideas of Marxism!
For sure. There’s also some super-interesting outlier cases of communistic / egalitarian agricultural societies, that maintained the status of women, and were classless, like catalhoyuk.
Answering the questions no one has asked. I came across this topic today, did these calculations for my own use, and decided it would be useful to share this data, and so I have. 👍
I did the math and found that we have lived under crapitalism for 0.1% of our species’ existence
And yet in that time it’s plunged the planet into a mass extinction event.
we have lived under crapitalism for 0.1% of our species’ existence
Muh hooman natur
Lol good one
