Dispelling the myth: Innate Human Selfishness

Humans have for years claimed that for reasons of ‘selfishness’, Communism could never work. It seems to be at the core of any argument against Marx’s work. However, if you were to trace back the origins of this argument you will find that in fact this idea is nothing but western propaganda. It is true that humans have a survivalist instinct, but this survivalist instinct does not overt the means of greed and selfishness. Surviving has forever been intertwined within a community or a family. For instance: primitive man would forage and hunt in groups, fish work in shoals, apes live and work in collections, lions live in prides etc. In fact Marx argued that in the Ancient stage of society reflected a ‘primitive type of communism’ where there was shared division of labour and the modes of production were shared.