By "egalitarian" the writers mean the practice of imposing inequality through forced redistribution. Seems like a good Saturday Digest ping topic, a day early. Thanks OK Sun.
By "egalitarian" the writers mean the practice of imposing inequality through forced redistribution. Seems like a good Saturday Digest ping topic, a day early. Thanks OK Sun.
Thanks for the ping.
Excellent definition.
Interesting article-thanks for posting it-I’m not sure why anyone in the archaeological community would think even the earliest human societies did not have social mores that were not egalitarian, since even groups of animals have a hierarchy.
There have to be leaders and followers and a social order, or it is total chaos-humans would not have survived with everyone just alike in status, skipping around, picking and eating plants and rushing large animals with spears in a group with no leader to devise a strategy. It may be a pretty fiction, but it certainly isn’t reality...
