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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