i needed your comment to realize I forgot to put the wiki link. You can forward your complaint to Bookchin ;)
Noting the lack of hierarchy and economic inequality, historian and anti-capitalist author Murray Bookchin has argued that Çatalhöyük was an early example of anarcho-communism.[40]
Out of curiosity, do you know if any other historians/archaeoanthropologists who would make that same claim?
Not to say it’s wrong, but I can see how it would be tempting as a self-declared anti-capitalist to want to interpret the findings in a way that conforms to (and thereby confirms) my worldview.
I heard about Catalhoyuk yesterday… So i have no clue how scientist are perceiving it. But the construction: all together under the same roof, with no street, is pretty striking.
Obviously this dude calling it “anarcho communist” is biased… the wiki article seems to purposely avoid a neutral tone to make it clear.
But I can see why he came to that conclusion. I dont think we have any other settlement even remotely resembling this one, to make a more informed guess
Kind of a stupid decision to call something pre-currency and pre-codified laws “anarcho communist”.
It’d be like calling something born before animal life “vegan” because it doesn’t eat animals.
Technically correct, maybe, but very much missing the point of the label.
i needed your comment to realize I forgot to put the wiki link. You can forward your complaint to Bookchin ;)
Out of curiosity, do you know if any other historians/archaeoanthropologists who would make that same claim?
Not to say it’s wrong, but I can see how it would be tempting as a self-declared anti-capitalist to want to interpret the findings in a way that conforms to (and thereby confirms) my worldview.
I heard about Catalhoyuk yesterday… So i have no clue how scientist are perceiving it. But the construction: all together under the same roof, with no street, is pretty striking.
Obviously this dude calling it “anarcho communist” is biased… the wiki article seems to purposely avoid a neutral tone to make it clear.
But I can see why he came to that conclusion. I dont think we have any other settlement even remotely resembling this one, to make a more informed guess