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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rlbell @ Jun 8 2006, 10:48 PM) [snapback]235347[/snapback]</div>

You are suggesting that we can move our economic dynamics back to our tribal past, without rolling back anything else.[/b]

A switch to Communism is not a move back, but a move forward. Marx wrote extensively on the way societies change from one system to another, and he built up a model of the progression:

Primitivism -> Slave Society (eg, Ancient Rome) -> Feudalism -> Capitalism -> Communism

While Communism may have much in common with Primitivism, the implementation and practice are very different.
One of the key differences is specialisation, little specialisation can take place in a primitive society due to the very low level of technology and small groups of people. In a Communist society, however, the scale is far, far larger; and there is a high level of technology (this is another thing that Marx suggested, that each of the systems above require a given level of technology, and once that level is reached then the system will coem to pass).

Communism does not advocate a move back to primitive tribal life, there is far more to it than that.