The Transition from Primitive Communism: The Wolof Social Formation of West Africa

Rolf Jensen

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 1, 69-76

Abstract: The transition from a classless to a class society has been a major dilemma to Marxist economic historians. Using the Wolof social formation of West Africa as its historical example, this paper produces a class theoretic analysis of primitive communism. From this analysis, it is then able to show how such a transition could take place.

Date: 1982
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