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Key takeaways from The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong
Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong
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Why doesn’t philosophy progress from debate to consensus?
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~11 min read · From 2020 · Every human is both an animal with a deep evolutionary history and an individual who must bring their existence into being
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