Pre-Marxist communism

While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined communism as a political movement in 1848, there were similar ideas in the past which could be called communist experiments. Marx himself saw the original hunter-gatherer state of humankind as primitive communism. Marx theorized that only after humanity was capable of producing surplus did private property develop.

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