Slavery was brought on by the advent of agriculture, 12,000 years ago. Humans (homo sapiens) have existed for 300,000 years. 12,000/300,000x100=
4% of our species existence
Capitalism itself has only existed for about 300 years, a figure so trivial it isn’t even worth calculating.
Yes, but the neolithic / agricultural revolution, where we can definitely say that class society started arising, is 10k BCE. Tool using humans have been around for like ~3M years, so class society makes up about ~0.4% of human history.
Agreed, just a small nitpick. There were only a handful of non-agricultural class societies and they were all quite small, but I think its quite interesting and still corrobates a lot of the fundamental ideas of Marxism!
For sure. There’s also some super-interesting outlier cases of communistic / egalitarian agricultural societies, that maintained the status of women, and were classless, like catalhoyuk.