RevLeft - The anthropology of free access communism

1st August 2011 22:22

robbo203

By way of an introduction here are a number of useful links to key texts on the anthropology of free communism, Please feel free to add to this list yourself which comes from the site of the World in Common group http://www.worldincommon.org/theory.html?id=222

Why Work? – Bob Black
http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/abolition.html
Useful Work vs. Useless Toil – William Morris
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1885/useful.htm
The Right To Be Lazy– Paul Lafargue
http://www.slp.org/pdf/others/lazy_pl.pdf
In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russell
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/E-text/Russell/praise.htm or http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2528/br_idle.htm
Marx and Darwin – Anton Pannekoek
http://libcom.org/library/marxism-and-darwinism-pannekoek?PHPSESSID=5a519de8da658a52b63d848a91112f 10
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State – Friedrich Engels
http://libcom.org/library/origin-family-private-property-state-engels
Mutual Aid – Piotr Kropotkin
http://libcom.org/library/mutual-aid-peter-kropotkin
The Part Played By Labour in the Transition From Ape To Man – Friedrich Engels
http://libcom.org/library/dialectics-nature-engels-plan
Hunting, Gathering and Co-Operating – World Socialist Movement
http://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm-pages/hunting.html
Is Socialism Against ‘Human Nature’ ? – World Socialist Movement
http://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm-pages/humanntr.html
Economic Anthropology – Olsen
http://fhss.byu.edu/anthro/faculty/Olsen/Olsen-Notes5.html
Ancient Society – Lewis Henry Morgan
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/morgan-lewis/ancient-society/index.htm

Quote

5th August 2011 23:18

robbo203

On Reciprocity

http://fasnafan.tripod.com/economics.pdf
http://anthro.palomar.edu/economy/econ_3.htm
http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~dwal...s/lecture9.doc
http://www.socialgenes.org/publicati...Evolution2.pdf
http://www.lwcag.org/economic/the-pr...ciprocity.html
http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/Toko-group-as.pdf
http://remoteculturesandenvirons.rwi...ciprocity.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559812/
http://what-when-how.com/social-scie...ocial-science/
http://vocs.unideb.hu/librarian/inline&get=01514.pdf
http://www.marxists.org/archive/harm...0_prologue.htm
http://www.prismjournal.org/fileadmi...es/Strauss.pdf
http://jocote.org/tag/history/
http://dipeco.economia.unimib.it/web...i/wp131_07.pdf
http://www.ucd.ie/lkomito/ijs.pdf
http://www.malcolmread.co.uk/conscise/body/gavlemel.pdf

Quote