Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]

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  • I guess so? I’ve read Origin of the Family by Engels which is also based on Morgan’s work, but not Marx’s notes.

    Iirc he talks about how in Ancient Greece and Rome the gentes lost their power and importance as the economy became more regionally connected and based on slavery, and local war chieftains or kings became more powerful. So politics came to be based more around geography and military might than family structures, and class society emerged as some people were captured or sold into slavery and disconnected from their gentes, or became more powerful through military conquest and/or priestly administrative roles and chose to ignore the old social order of the gentes.