Comparing small closely related groups with a modern nation is preposterous.
Nor were these societies diverse. They were largely homogeneous and or closely related. They also had low capital requirements, since they weren't conducting research, inventing technology, building centers of learning, etc. etc.
Singing Kumbaya around a campfire in a primitive hunter/gatherer/light agriculture society is one thing. Building a modern nation is quite different.
Tweezing out a few sparse examples of primitive people or other small societies behavior (which is open to interpretation and bias of the observer), and then extrapolating that it must be the default setting for all humans is nuts, when the overwhelming evidence of recorded history points to different conclusion.
The young part was painfully obvious.
Take about 30 more spins around the sun or so, and you will look back and think dear God, how could I have been this naive.
Once again, Communism does not mimic human nature, therefore it, just like all of its' utopian predecessors, will always be doomed to fail.
As I said to a friend in college who got turned on for a while by this crap:
" Nice theory. Now what species did you have this in mind for? Because it certainly cannot be human beings."
Comparing small closely related groups with a modern nation is preposterous.
Nor were these societies diverse. They were largely homogeneous and or closely related. They also had low capital requirements, since they weren't conducting research, inventing technology, building centers of learning, etc. etc.
Singing Kumbaya around a campfire in a primitive hunter/gatherer/light agriculture society is one thing. Building a modern nation is quite different.
Tweezing out a few sparse examples of primitive people or other small societies behavior (which is open to interpretation and bias of the observer), and then extrapolating that it must be the default setting for all humans is nuts, when the overwhelming evidence of recorded history points to different conclusion.