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It is not necessarily true that "In socialist tradition, indigenous cultures have no importance other than folkloric recuperation, since they are all reduced to their proletarian aspects"--or at least not of all socialist tradition. In the communist-anarchist tradition, see Kropotkin's Mutual Aid or his The State, or in Marxist tradition see Engels' Origins of the Family.... or Marx's notebooks on anthropology. In both cases (relying on the same anthropological data) they saw early humanity as having many virtues and positive aspects which were lost by the development of classes and states and other forms of oppression, and they predicted a higher level of society (communism) which would combine the benefits of early human society with a great technical level of prosperity and leisure (with a transformation of technology from the way capitalism has developed it). This is,, of course, their difference from the primitivists..