The Tension Between Ingalls and Marxism

Allison Morgan: There is a way to read Ingalls as lamenting the loss of the gens and development of the state. One could read Ingalls deterministically as simply explaining an inevitable progress towards civilization, she says. Morgan: I don't think at least in the case of the Greek state and the Roman state, the gens itself is identical to that primitive communism. The fact that the state replaced the gens wasn't a historical accident, it was a result of contradictions which already existed, argues Morgan.

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