Common Ownership - History

History

See also: Communalism

Before the Neolithic Revolution, tribes practiced communal ownership of all assets, which preceded private ownership. The Native Americans practiced the common ownership of land and allocated it to individuals through usufruct rights. Robert LeFevre argued that common ownership of land started to wither since the start of farming in Egypt and the Middle East. In Marxist theory, this form of ownership is called Primitive communism because it was based on common ownership on a subsistence level.

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