
6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works
WHAT IS POLITICS?
What Is a Galetarianism?
Anthropologist christopher bome calls the cultural levelling mechanisms, plus the threat of retaliation, a reverse dominance hierarchy. The community collectively dominates potential alpha men, preventing them from establishing any kind of hierarchy. This agaletarianism was most likely the norm for much of the past 300 thousand years of our existence as anatomically modern humans. And it shaped our very nature as a species. But hold your horses, anarchists and communists, we might be capable of equality, but we currently live in a world full of endless hierarchy. How did we get from there to here? Is there any way to go back to answer these questions?
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