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The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex by Warren Farrell
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The Fraud of Feminism (full book online) by Earnest Belford Bax
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Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young
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Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History of Men by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young
No More Sex War by Neil Lyndon
A few works that I think deserve more attention. Some are directly related to Men's Rights, others tangentially.
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior by Christopher Boehm
War, Peace, Human Nature: Converging Evolutionary & Cultural Views by Douglas Fry et. al
Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance: A Model of Female/Male Interaction in Peasant Society (paper online) by Susan Carol Rogers
Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800 (paper online) by J. Bailey
The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions (full book online) by Robert Briffault
Gynocentrism: From Feudalism to the Modern Disney Princess by Peter Wright
Sex and Culture (full book online) by J.D. Unwin
The Manipulated Man (full book online) by Esther Villar
Unknown Misandry (website)
Real Sexism (website)
In general, the concept of communal property is pervasive among egalitarian societies. Most mobile foragers or hunter-gatherers are or were egalitarian, as are many horticultural societies. However, there's a lot of variation. Typically there are complex social leveling mechanisms in place that prevent any individual from collecting too much wealth (including material and social). For example, when a hunter gets a kill, depending on the tool and method used and present company, there may be different culturally proscribed methods for distribution. Egalitarianism, putatively characterized the majority of human evolution but is hardly representative of all human culture. Robert Kelly's new edition of The Foraging Spectrum provides a nice review. Also, Boehm's Hierarchy in the Forest is a good introduction to theories on egalitarianism.
> Give everyone shit, or give nobody shit, or you breed resentment.
This is true. We have lived in extremely egalitarian societies for about 95 percent of our history, so it's not surprising at all that human beings become extremely dysfunctional in hierarchical/unequal societies. The more inequality the more dysfunction. More unequal societies fare worse on every single quality of life indicator.
The right is fighting biology, essentially, a doomed mission that will probably end in extinction. The modern "left" -- also steered by billionaire psychopaths -- is no better, as they also support extreme hierarchy. Though the "left" at least talks about class and war, they reduce the most important issues to an afterthought, and focus relentlessly on ID politics.
I came late to this topic, but discovered this only last year and read it a few months ago:
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
by Christopher Boehm
Very thought-provoking topic.
I'll answer: Yes.
We have lived in profoundly egalitarian societies for about 97 percent of our time on planet earth. As noted in The Spirit Level, the more unequal the society the more social dysfunction. This makes perfect sense given our evolutionary history.
The mistake communists made was to assume "equality" could be achieved via an all powerful state. But hierarchy is the problem, not just capitalism. Socialism doesn't work without the democratic aspect.
I can't be arsed to keep humoring you when you are clearly completely ignorant of how anthropology works.
To answer your question, the work of Christopher Boehm would be a good place to start.
Or, recognize that there is a unanimous consensus within archaeology and anthropology that your first paragraph about prehistoric societies was entirely false.
Now you are merely attacking the credibility of anthropology as a whole, with zero evidence supporting your ridiculous speculation.
I'm done trying to reason with such an ignoramus.
https://www.amazon.com/Hierarchy-Forest-Evolution-Egalitarian-Behavior/dp/0674006917
Heres a good book on the subject.
If you get bored with that, just go take a class in anthropology.