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.
Could you explain in what way these societies had communist governments? I am not saying you are wrong, just that it’s good to have it spelled out.
These societies practiced something known as “primitive communism” a term that is…very outdated to say the least.
Essentially, pre-modern societies could sometimes form a type of societal structure similar to communism, with fairly even distribution of resources and little to no societal hierarchy, or a very flexible hierarchy that changed based on what skills the leadership required. A lot of unrelated societies throughout history have been this way. In an ideal world we could just press the big red communism button and return to a more egalitarian society, but unfortunately we don’t live in that world.
Other comments have recommended “State and Revolution” and “The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State” as reading material on this topic. Both are excellent resources, but “Origin” is probably what you’re looking for to explain the Marxist viewpoint on this subject.
Now I’m just imagining “Indiana Jones and the Big Red Communism Button”