1:12:00
It achieves the highest stage
of barbarism...
1:12:03
...when it passes from tribal
confederation to military democracy
1:12:09
In its "heroic" age...
1:12:12
...on the threshold of civilization,
of class society...
1:12:17
...mankind finds itself organized
in a military democracy
1:12:22
As with Greece of the heroes,
Rome of the "kings"...
1:12:26
...was a military democracy which
had developed from the gentes...
1:12:30
...phratries and tribes
1:12:35
Even though the patrician nobility
had gained some ground...
1:12:39
...even if the administrators were
slowly gaining privileges...
1:12:44
...that did not change the
fundamental constitutional character
1:12:49
The Greeks passed from tribe, to
confederation, to military democracy
1:12:56
To understand this evolution
one must understand its origin
1:13:01
The gens
1:13:03
Engels, after Morgan...
1:13:08
...assumed the American gens
to be the original form...
1:13:12
...and the Greco-Roman form
to be a derivation
1:13:17
He assumed that the Iroquois gens
and particularly the Seneca gens...
1:13:21
...to be the classic form of
this primitive gens
1:13:25
By the 19th century the Iroquois
had evolved a tribal confederation
1:13:32
Thus the Iroquois clarified
the early history of the West
1:13:37
However, according to Morgan and
Engels it was not the Iroquois...
1:13:42
...who represented the most advanced
organization of American Indians
1:13:47
The great pre-Columbian
civilizations...
1:13:51
...Inca, Maya, Aztec...
1:13:55
...had ended their independent
history...
1:13:58
...had paralleled the Greeks
at the end of their heroic age...