In primitive communism misery, as I have observed in a preceding paragraph, is the universal condition.

Such efforts, if successful, would destroy their primitive communism, which is necessary to preserve their existence.

All men are equal in the state of primitive communism, equal in their nakedness and ignorance, equal in the indefinite power of their faculties.

Engels drew on Morgan's data, as well as evidence from around the world to argue that prehistoric societies lived in what he called " primitive communism".

Primitive communism, chattel slavery, serf slavery, and wage slavery were necessary stepping-stones in the evolution of society.