The Transition from Primitive Communism: The Wolof Social Formation of West Africa
- 3 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 42 (1) , 69-76
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700026899
Abstract
The transition from a classless to a class society has been a major dilemma to Marxist economic historians. Using the Wolof social formation of West Africa as its historical example, this paper produces a class theoretic analysis of primitive communism. From this analysis, it is then able to show how such a transition could take place.Keywords
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