The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-04

intercourse with anyone who pleased
her, especially before she was mar
ried, in Patriarchal Barbarism the
man deprived her of this right. She
must now be virtuous and chaste and
true to her husband, but he of course
could still do as he pleased in sexual
matters.
1t was the introduction of private
property that compelled woman to be
chaste and virtuous. 1t was not due
to the fact that she is by nature SUI
perior to man in these matters. Orig
inally woman was just as promiscuous
as man, but since man needed To know
who his children were, In order to
will his property to them, he forced
the woman to be virtuous. In later
civilized times, in Rome for example,
he had the right of life and death
over her. He could kill her if she had
relations with another man.
However, we must remember that
since in the period Of Patriarchal Bar
barism the land was not yet private
property, for civilization had to be
reached before that could take place
the wars of these tribes were not
real wars" That is to say, since
the men had not yet learned how to
use the land to enrich themselves, they
did not go out to conquer the land of
other people. They did not fully I'M
derstand that it was profitable to en-
slave other men in order to become
rich. They merely had faint inkling
of this truth, but only in Civilization
was it put into practical application.
The contention that only booty and
tribute raids existed in Patriarchal
Barbarism, and no true wars, is sup
ported by many authorities. Nieboer,
in his Slavery as an Industrial Sys-
TEN" says that among the ANA Rosa
and Ovaherero the chief object of
warfare is cattle stealing" The
Nasal of Africa, supposedly very.
warlike tribe, are merely. cattle
thieves. In these fights very little
blood is shed and few are killed. The
same may be said of the Benz Amer,
the Somal, the MARS and most other
cattle tribes.
The Abipones, says the missionary
Dobrizhoffer, curse a victory if one
of their men are killed. In Africa the
Watatura cease fighting as soon as a
few men are slain. During two years
of warfare, says Spike, between the
great chief of Munda and a petty
chief only six men were killed. And
Thomson Through Masai-land) tells
US that even the "warlike Nasal" spill
little blood and slay few in their
wars" which are nothing but cattle
raids.
show that Patriarchal Barbarism
merely sows the seeds of war. 1t cam
not develop these seeds into real war
because the land has not yet become
private property, because the state,
the armed power of the ruling class,
of the exploiters, has not yet organ
lied special army.
1t is only on this basis that real war
can exist; that it is possible for the
exploiters to make war on other peo-
pies in order to secure more and more
land, more and more slaves by means
of which to enrich themselves.
In the next article we will demon
strate how civilization, by making the
land a private possession and by
founding a state, scourges humanity
with war and divides society into
classes, the rich and the poor. We
will show that war and capitalist civ
ilization are Siamese twins; that cap
italist civilization is the system of
War par excellence.
(Next article tomorrow.