In The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, what term is used to refer to the period of communally organized hunting and gathering societies?

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In The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, Engels uses the term "state of savagery" to refer to the period of communally organized hunting and gathering societies. He argued that this period was followed by a "stage of barbarism" characterized by the emergence of agriculture and the domestication of animals, leading eventually to the development of class societies and the state.

In the Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State