The Importance of Reading Ingalls' Text More Deterministically

There are those who use this text to argue that pre-capitalist cultures somehow had to be overcome by capitalism. This is an easy way to read it because of the way Ingalls' uses Morgan's work, right? It does trace these like clear stages that societies go through. And unfortunately, as a result of that, this text has been used by open reactionaries and chauvinists in order to justify some of their more horrific arguments. But still, despite the patent absurdity of this position, there are those who will try to cite this text for their bleatly chauvinist positions.