Reaction to prehistory of private property chapter 12

 So....read chapter 12, which discusses the history of early prestate societies up to chiefdoms. And like previous chapters indicated, most small scale societies have mostly collective types of property rights if any at all. More bureaucracy is needed as societies become more complex, and in the small scale, things are still mostly communal. It's really only when you get to chiefdoms that things start changing. it seems obvious that chiefdom societies seem to give away to monarchical types of systems where the sovereign dominates the land and people are forced into labor and expected to pay tribute to them. Force in these societies seems more rare at the communal level. it's more at the chiefdom level that all the bad stuff we hate tends to happen. Either way, the point of this wasn't to talk about how things went to crap with chiefdoms, widerquist and mccall use this evidence to disprove the propertarians and their hardcore individual property rights theory. Individual appropriation as these guys believe in just isn't a thing in these societies. While I did oversimplify above and reality is a bit more complex than i indicated, i would largely argue that things started out more communal and eventually gave way to systems in which a sovereign runs everything and things get more coercive, in terms of rent, taxes, and forced servitude (even full on slavery in some cases). And yeah. I don't have a solid reaction beyond that. I just wanted to write down my thoughts while they were fresh.