> It's an elementary fact of anthropology that human societies for most of history have lived on a communal basis without property.

Interesting. I've assumed that primitive communities were run from the top down with the alpha male effectively owning everything.

I found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism

But it states:

> There is also no agreement among later scholars, including Marxists, on the historical extent, or longevity, of primitive communism.