The ‘Collops’ of the Rundale

Marx in the following comments on how concrete forms of primitive communism allocated access to differing soil fertility enclaves:

‘In fact, however, soil-types of differing grades of fertility are always cultivated simultaneously and for this reason the Germans, the Slavs and the Celts very carefully distributed scarps of lands of differing types amongst the members of the community; it was this that later made division of the community lands so difficult’ (Marx to Engels, 26^th Nov. 1869).

In the case of the Irish (Celtic) Rundale commune, this distribution was organized through the use of the collop.

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