ABSTRACT
As communal economics provide for the most essential need, which is food, and there is no general currency, the attitude of primitive societies in economic matters does not correspond to our own. The importance of blood-relationship has not been forced into the background, as is the case among us, and the family has not been broken up into individuals, as in modern society, where this results in associations formed partly on a vocational and partly or an ideal basis. The result in the various primitive types of economics is an attitude from which we must conclude the existence of a different economic spirit. The directness of primitive economics further entails a different economic distribution consequent on the lack of a universal currency. The spirit permeating the structure of Chinese society is also applicable to more primitive communities where society is stratified.
