Cotton, slaves, war, and measles in colonial Fiji
Second of two articles on Land Labour and Epidemic Disease in the capitalist penetration of the Pacific First part here. Almost one hundred years after the Sydney Cove epidemic, a […]
Category Archives: primitive communism
The Legacy of Primitive Communism
Last part of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan The last article in this series argued that the system of Maori communal production could not be reorientated […]
The Destruction of Maori Communism
Part Three of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan It is a “guiding principle” of Marx’s historical materialism that “at a certain stage of development, […]
A Maori Matriarchy?
Part Two of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan If we take the society of the Iroquois Indians of North America studied by Lewis Morgan, […]
Once Were Communists – Part One: The first communism
Note from James Robb: The next four posts in this blog will be a series of articles on primitive communism in New Zealand by Terry Coggan, a longtime member of the communist […]
A worker at large 