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Engels observed the steps
leading to class society...
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...and inter-class relations...
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...as beginning with the Greeks...
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...and ending in industrial capitalism
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When the three elements: Private
property, monogamy and the state...
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...combined in one society,
it went from barbarism to civilization...
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...and from a classless society
to a class society
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To be precise: Morgan,
whom Engels drew upon...
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...said man progressed from advanced
savagery to primitive barbarism...
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...when clan developed into tribe
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Mankind advances from
primitive barbarism...
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...when individual tribes form
a confederation of tribes
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It achieves the highest stage
of barbarism...
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...when it passes from tribal
confederation to military democracy
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In its "heroic" age...
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...on the threshold of civilization,
of class society...
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...mankind finds itself organized
in a military democracy
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As with Greece of the heroes,
Rome of the "kings"...
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...was a military democracy which
had developed from the gentes...
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...phratries and tribes
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Even though the patrician nobility
had gained some ground...
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...even if the administrators were
slowly gaining privileges...
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...that did not change the
fundamental constitutional character
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The Greeks passed from tribe, to
confederation, to military democracy
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To understand this evolution
one must understand its origin