• Primitive communism
  • Early hunter, gatherers with no private property
• Slave society
  • Greece and Rome are key examples
  • Slaves are forced to produce goods for masters
  • Slave owners controlled means of production
  • Growing divide between free citizens and slaves
• Feudalism
  • Land is primary means of production
  • Hierarchical relationship between lords and serfs
• Capitalism
  • Rise of industrialization
  • Means of production is privately owned by capitalists
  • Illiterate workers sell labor to survive
• Socialism/communism
  • Proletariat overthrow bourgeoisie and establish socialist society
  • Means of production is collectively owned
  • Would evolve into communism in classless, stateless society