Socialism

I doubt whether even the most ferocious opponents of Marx would disagree with the proposition that a hunter gatherer society is incapable of creating state institutions, because the sort of political and legal superstructure that a state represents is beyond the limits of what is possible on the economic base hunting and gathering provides. Nor would almost any scholar deny that a capitalist society could exist without a state and a legal system. It's when historical materialism tries to make much more specific claims, like Marx's early claim that capitalism would revolutionise Asia or Kirch's claim that Polynesia was explored and settled for environmental reasons, that trouble arises. [...]

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