the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

several tribes in their confederate capacity would be engaged in war. So want feltfor a general commander to direct the movements of the united bands. D . introductionof this office as a permanentfeature verhängnisvoll event in human history.Beginn der differentiation of the military von d. civil power, which, when completed,changed essentially the external manifestation o f the gvernment.Aber gentilism arrested usurpation; government o f one power became nunone of 2; the functions of gvt became in time co-ordinate between the two.This new office - the germ of a chief executive magistrate; out of the generalcame the king etc The office sprang v. d. military necessities of society. - \5 2 The Great War Soldier dr Iroquois {lower status of barbarism), der Teuctli derAztecs (middle status of barbarism), der βασιλεύς der Griechen u. rex d. Römer(Upper Status of barbarism) - three successive ethnic epochs - selbes office,das eines Generals in a military democracy. Bei Iroquois, Aztecs, Romans d.office elective u. confederative dch a constituency; wahrscheinlich auch beid. Griechen whd d. traditionary period; auf nichts gegründet d. Behptg, dasses erblich bei d. homerischen tribes v. father to son; widerspricht demgroundwork of gentile institutions. Wenn in zahlreichen Fällen d. officepassed von father to son, dies might have suggested the inference -unbegründete - of hereditary succession, now adopted as historically true.Hereditary succession, when first established, came from force (usurpation),nicht by the free consent of the people.Nach Stiftng d. Iroquois confederacy two permanent war-chief ship (s)created u. nam