The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-04
MARKHAM Social Science
War in Barbarisrn

richment, then the peace of primitive
society is disturbed,
The first victims of this change in
the material conditions of society
were the women. The men expropri-
ated and robbed the women of their
rights and privileges that savagery
and matriarchal barbarism had grant
ed them. If prior to patriarchal bar
barism woman was the equal of man,
now she was subjected and subordin-
ated. The women as whole compos-
ed the first class to be exploited. But
since no class in society willingly ac-
cepts subordinate position, since no
class neekly submits to being robbed
and appropriated and "enslaved" we
find the women, wherever they were
able, as in Asia Minor, in South
America, and elswhere, rising in re-
volt against the men, and fighting
them to the death. In one case, in
Africa, they even succeeded in over
coming the men and enslaving them.
But since in the majority of cases
when the matriarchal tribes were
changing into patriarchalism) the
women were unarmed, they could put
up no effective opposition and had to
accept more or less meekly their sub
lection. An unarmed class is always
at the mercy Of an armed class. That
is why the Leninists always insist on
arming the proletariat, as in Russia,
for if unarmed they will be "enslaved"
and subjected, as were the women Of
old.
The introduction of private prop
erty in cattle transformed the happy
go-luclzy and freedom-loving hunter
into warrior, seeker after private
property, and an enslaver For the
first time in the history of the human
race man began to lie and steal and
rob. He now wished to get more and
more, not so much by work as by ex-
plotting and robbing. For he found
that he could accumulate property
more easily by treachery and stealing
and by exploiting others. So that
now the men of the cattle-tribes went
out on the warpath, they went out to
steal from other tribes. And this
form of activity, the source of the
first primitive accumulation, dis
turbed the peace of humanity.
1t was the birth of private prop
erty, the desire to get more and more,
that made warrior out of the hunt
er and herdsman. Do you not see
that when man was launched on his
property career he begun to shun la
Dor, to Cypress women, to rob his
fellow-man? Do you not realize that
now for the first time in the history
of our race, lying and stealing was
of Importance Do you not see de-
veloping before your very eyes the
passion of greed? The savage and
matriarchal barbarian was altruistic,
unselfish and communistic in his daily
life; but the Patriarchal Barbarian,
the man who made cattle his private
possession, became selfish and greedy;
he became liar and thief, he be-
came lover of war!
We must also realize that when
the Patriarchal Barbarian subjected
woman and began to accumulate pri-
vate property, when he began to en-
rich himself at the expense of others
it was necessary for him to be able
to leave his wealth on his death to
his children. In order to accomplish
this it was necessary for him to guard
his wife Cor wives) and his daughters;
it was necessary for him to compel
them to chastity. If in primitive
times-in Savagery and early Bar
barism-woman had the right to have