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Karl Wittfogel

Inasmuch as anthropoligists mistakenly attributed to Wittfogel a
general theory of the origins of the state, it was tempting to
overstress trait #2, that is, the village community aspect of the
Asiatic Mode; and thus to somehow reconceptualize this mode as
a transionary mode in-between primitive communism and the slave
or ancient or feudal modes, such that in Asia the appearance of
this mode broke the four stage chain near its beginning.
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