Feburary 24, 2005

Discussing the stages theory of human socioeconomic evolution


By Lil Joe
joeradical@earthlink.net



Amadou: Thanks for initiating this. Your reference to James - your namesake! - was the book you cited about modes of production that should not be in seen stages, had arisen my curiosity and I would appreciate to hear much more about it...


Lil Joe: That's the easy part to write about -- on second thought: not so easy!




The stages theory of human socioeconomic evolution is based on concepts of political economic property ownership as characterizing 'relations of production' as the social content of different 'modes of production'.

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