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primitive Communism  

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  • The idea that humanity experienced a long period of primitive social equality prior to the formation of political communities and states has been a recurring theme in political philosophy since at least antiquity. Expressed most prominently in the idea of a state of nature, the notion of primitive social equality played a key role in theoretical systems of the various social contract theorists of Europe, beginning in the sixteenth century. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Primitive Communism]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FZLGBB2N-H

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