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Pre-Marxist communism
Overview of communist-oriented ideologies and practices prior to the works of Karl Marx / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined communism as a political movement, there were already similar ideas in the past which one could call communist experiments.[1] Marx himself saw primitive communism as the original hunter-gatherer state of humankind. Marx theorized that only after humanity was capable of producing surplus did private property develop.[2][3]
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