I think we had tribal politics. I don’t think they’re very relevant to revolutionary politics in the sense that you discuss above.
I don’t want to make any strong statements about how tribal politics in the EEA worked, since we honestly have very little information about social structure in that context. But I think we can make a few assumptions about them. For example, they’re likely to have been stable for timescales of many generations, which means that we’re not likely to have evolved intuitions about changing the form of government. Similarly, they’re likely to have worked on sub-Dunbar scales, not the scale of a modern nation.
I don’t think revolution has to be about the form of government. It is merely the removal of government without its consent. A military coup d’etat could be a revolution in that sense.
You don’t think we had triibal politics in the ancestral environment? Chimps have them.
I think we had tribal politics. I don’t think they’re very relevant to revolutionary politics in the sense that you discuss above.
I don’t want to make any strong statements about how tribal politics in the EEA worked, since we honestly have very little information about social structure in that context. But I think we can make a few assumptions about them. For example, they’re likely to have been stable for timescales of many generations, which means that we’re not likely to have evolved intuitions about changing the form of government. Similarly, they’re likely to have worked on sub-Dunbar scales, not the scale of a modern nation.
I don’t think revolution has to be about the form of government. It is merely the removal of government without its consent. A military coup d’etat could be a revolution in that sense.