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JULY, 1973
power of these primordial communities had to be broken and it was broken.. But it was broken by influences which from the outset appear to us as a degradation, a fall from the simple moral grandeur of the ancient gentile society. The lowest interests-base greed, brutal sensuality, sordid avarice, selfish plunder of common possessions-usher in the new, civilized society, class society; the most outrageous meanstheft, rape, deceit and treachery-undermine and topple the old, classless, gentile society. And the new society, during all the 2500 years of its existence, has never been anything but the development of the small minority at the expense of the exploited and oppressed great majority; and it is so today more than ever before."24
The study of the Kulakara system of society reveals a similar faithful picture of socio-economic and political life of the people of the prehistoric age to some extent as presented by F. Engels after his critical study of the development of man and society from the age of savagery to civilization.
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Ibid., pp. 97-98.
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