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@cy
> You couldn't do anything to resist absolute authoritarian tyranny
Graeber and Wengrow suggest otherwise. Exploring the evidence that farming communities, and even cities, that were ...
"... organized on robustly egalitarian lines, with no need for authoritarian rulers, ambitious warrior-politicians, or even bossy administrators."
... were perfectly capable of defending themselves from neighbours that had these, and had methods for suppressing their emergence within their own cultures.
@cy
> You couldn't do anything to resist absolute authoritarian tyranny
Graeber and Wengrow suggest otherwise. Exploring the evidence that farming communities, and even cities, that were ...
"... organized on robustly egalitarian lines, with no need for authoritarian rulers, ambitious warrior-politicians, or even bossy administrators."
... were perfectly capable of defending themselves from neighbours that had these, and had methods for suppressing their emergence within their own cultures.
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