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Old 09-11-2019, 02:47 PM   #25
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Default Re: Has anyone ever tried to create campaign based on Plato's Repuplic?

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post

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I suppose what I'm trying to say is that the "sharing" is really an ongoing process of exchange, spread out over time, and in a society small enough so everyone knows who's pulling their weight and who isn't.
Communities such as those (which Marx referred to, in the aggregate, as "primitive communism") have no need of laws or formal governments.

Everybody knows everybody, the culture (to the extent any exists, at all) is wholly homogeneous, and kinship ties are well-understood.

That means any conflict can be (and usually is) resolved through either personal vendetta, or enforced conformity via social pressures backed by threat of exile.

No need for government, there and no social classes, either.
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