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CIA 1983: American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious. (lemmy.ml)

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The answer to misleading information about USSR had issues feeding its population. source : https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5

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[–] unfreeradical 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All my research says that it’s biologically not possible to have a stateless society of more than 150 people. You’ve given me literally nothing to refute this.

Perhaps one useful starting point for you would be learning about tribal societies.

Tribes are non-state sociopolitical structures that unify bands or villages. Bands and villages are local groups that typically have less than a few hundred members.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, tribes almost always consist of less than 150 individuals.

You don't seem to understand this one simple fact. I can point to about a dozen examples of small communities that are effectively stateless. They all contain less than 150 people, because that's the number of relationships that a human brain can maintain before it breaks down.

And a news flash for you, most cities and towns have more than 150 people.

[–] unfreeradical 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Again, tribes almost always consist of less than 150 individuals.

No. As I explained, the local groups that are limited in size to several hundred individuals are called bands or villages. Tribes are structures that unify bands or villages.

You are not engaging the discussion or refining your understanding.

You consistently have exhibited sloppy reasoning and have adhered to inaccurate terminology.

I suggest stepping away for a few days.

Then, when your head is clear, you might read about tribal structures. Once you have opened to a broadened understanding of the structure for various past and extant stateless societies, if you are still interested in the subject, then you might begin to review some of the materials in libcom.org and The Anarchist Library. Since literature on the subject reaches back about two hundred years, I doubt you will struggle due to a poverty of sources.

If you later have doubts about material you have read, then you might present them on discussion boards. I think your asking sincere and informed questions, after some background reading, would be more productive than the present course.

Good luck.