Marx speculated that Russia could bypass capitalism and go direct to
socialism via the pesant communes. And this material was published in
Vygotsky's days.
Andy
Martin Packer wrote:
... Marx, towards the end of his life, was keeping 'ethnographic
notebooks' that contained his reflections on reading ethnographies
of indigenous peoples, including those in the US at the time. He
seemed to be considering the possibility that there is *not* a
single trajectory to history; that various routes are possible, and
that some indigenous groups had established a (largely) socialist
kind of organization without any of the infrastructure that standard
Marxist theory insists is necessary.
I do think (and I have argued in print) that LSV took from Marx and
Hegel a specific view of history that led him into difficulties in
seeing that indigenous people are not psychologically primitive.
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