sj_zero on Nostr: We still have examples today of what Marx called "tribal communism". What we find is ...

We still have examples today of what Marx called "tribal communism". What we find is that there is in fact a class structure. Sure, everything "belongs to the tribe", but the leaders of the tribe are at the top and so everything is really theirs, followed by the friends and family of the leaders, followed by everyone else, and the enemies of the leaders at the bottom. That's also as you note essentially the same stories for many ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia (which was controlled by the priest class at first and then the war kings later) and ancient Egypt (where the pharaoh was both the king and the head of the religion as I recall)

You're absolutely right about capitalism done right, and you can see that the thing that makes someone insanely rich often isn't capitalism but finding ways to get the state to choose to make you insanely rich with its power of law. When you watch "shark tank", you see people with business ideas, and what are the ideas that get big funding aren't the ones that are the best ideas, but the ones that have a patent or a copyright or some other proprietary thing where the state will step in and kill off any competition.