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whichfinder
20th May 2013, 15:57
Date: Sunday, 26 May 2013 - 3:00pm

Venue: The Socialist Party's premises, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN

Directions: About 4 minutes walk south-east from Clapham North station on the Northern line of the London Underground system and 3 minutes walk from Clapham High Street station on the Circular Overground system

Speaker: Richard Field

Hunter gatherers have some very interesting lessons for us. But we shouldn't romanticise them or turn them into a model for socialism. Their relationship to the means of production will not be the same as in socialism and their level of subsistence is very different. Most goods in hunter-gatherer societies are not owned in common (the unit of possession is generally the family), but that is because most goods are not the means of production. And their concept of possession is of course very different from our concept of ownership.

In the chair: Steve Clayton

All welcome

Audience participation

Free refreshments

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/hunter-gatherers-clapham-300pm

Questionable
20th May 2013, 16:05
As a Marxist who hates the way primitive societies are sometimes fetishized by the Left, I'll look at this with great interest.