spartan
25th September 2008, 04:53
Can there be communistic/socialistic societies in a pre-industral society?
It's just that time and time again I come across movements aiming for a "communistic" or "socialistic" society in pre-industrial societies with primarily Feudal/artisan modes of production.
We see this first with the "primitive communism" of tribal societies.
Hell there are even some who believe that Jesus was a socialist and certain early Christian communities did indeed have a general rule that all things owned and produced were distributed equally to all it's inhabitants.
You then come across it again in the 15th century with the Taborites who were a radical faction of the Hussites during the Hussite wars in what is today the Czech Republic but was back then Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire.
Tabor (the town where the Taborites were based and from which they took their name) was economically supported by their control of local gold mines, and it's citizens joined with the local peasants to develop a communistic-like society (what this entailed I don't know (perhaps someone here knows?) as I have only scratched the surface of this intresting subject).
The Taborites announced the "Millenium of Christ" and said that there would be no more masters or servants.
I will look for more examples of groups or movements (most of them seem to be based on religion especially Christianity) who sought, attempted and with some even temporarily succeeding in setting up communistic/socialistic societies.
If you know of more then please post your thoughts.
It's just that time and time again I come across movements aiming for a "communistic" or "socialistic" society in pre-industrial societies with primarily Feudal/artisan modes of production.
We see this first with the "primitive communism" of tribal societies.
Hell there are even some who believe that Jesus was a socialist and certain early Christian communities did indeed have a general rule that all things owned and produced were distributed equally to all it's inhabitants.
You then come across it again in the 15th century with the Taborites who were a radical faction of the Hussites during the Hussite wars in what is today the Czech Republic but was back then Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire.
Tabor (the town where the Taborites were based and from which they took their name) was economically supported by their control of local gold mines, and it's citizens joined with the local peasants to develop a communistic-like society (what this entailed I don't know (perhaps someone here knows?) as I have only scratched the surface of this intresting subject).
The Taborites announced the "Millenium of Christ" and said that there would be no more masters or servants.
I will look for more examples of groups or movements (most of them seem to be based on religion especially Christianity) who sought, attempted and with some even temporarily succeeding in setting up communistic/socialistic societies.
If you know of more then please post your thoughts.