Talk:Mode of production

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In The Political Unconscious Jameson sketches "the 'sequence' of modes of production as classical Marxism, from Marx and Engels to Stalin, tended to enumerate them: primitive communism or tribal society (the horde), the gens or hierarchical kinship societies (neolithic society), the Asiatic mode of production (so-called oriental despotism), the polis or oligarchical slaveholding society (the ancient mode of production), feudalism, capitalism, and communism (with a great deal of debate as to whether the transitional stage between these last - sometimes called 'socialism' - is a genuine mode of production in its own right or not)"[Hardt ed, p. 46-7]. I have tried to adjust the WikiP page to match...Jacobisq (talk) 08:23, 5 September 2018 (UTC)