Rundale Agrarian Commune: Marx and Engels on primitive communism in Ireland and its internal dynamics

With Marx’s concept of the primitive communist mode of production we (with Eoin Flaherty) were able to account for the emergence in Ireland of a particular socio-ecological metabolism which created a metabolic rift in the agricultural ecosystem of the rundale agrarian commune. And the specific characteristics of this rundale socio-ecological metabolism were the increasing penetration of individualism over the various communal aspects of the rundale system.

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